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If you dissolve a handful of salt in a cup of water, you will not be able to drink the water. But if you pour this salt into a river, you will still be able to drink from it. The river is vast, and it has the ability to accept, embrace and transform.

If the heart is small, then the ability to understand and empathize is limited, and we suffer. We cannot accept the imperfections of others and demand that they change.

But when our hearts become larger, the same things no longer make us suffer. We have a lot of understanding and empathy, and we can open our arms to others. We accept them as they are, and then they have a chance to change.

Thich Nhat Hanh