#343 Happiness - "Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most."
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This wise quote has a lot to teach about the unhappiness of others and how we can possibly help them improve their lives. More importantly, when we are kind to unkind people, we create an inner happiness and self-worth that truly is a beautiful thing to experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast, I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:07.0 | Be kind to unkind people they need it the most. |
| 0:12.0 | This most insightful and beautiful quote is attributed to Ashley Brilliant. |
| 0:17.0 | But why should we be kind to unkind people? |
| 0:21.0 | I mean, don't they need our rap, don't they need our criticism, |
| 0:24.9 | don't they need our hatred? Isn't that what we're supposed to give to them? |
| 0:28.0 | No. But why? I mean after all they're being unkind and how are we going to teach them to stop being unkind if we're kind towards them that just doesn't make any sense |
| 0:42.0 | What it has to do with is the fact that unkind people are |
| 0:47.5 | very unhappy. That's why they're being unkind. So do we really want to hurt someone who's already hurting? What would that |
| 0:56.0 | accomplish but creating more pain for them? And the second point is if we are |
| 1:01.9 | unkind towards them aren't we going to go down the path |
| 1:05.1 | of suffering ourselves? If unkindness leads to suffering and then we're inkind towards |
| 1:10.7 | an unkind person, the vicious cycle continues and it can go on and on for an |
| 1:16.8 | entire lifetime. And we're probably listening to this podcast because we want to have a happy |
| 1:22.0 | life. And hurting people is the quickest way to have an unhappy life. |
| 1:27.0 | But I want us to really explore why is that? Why is unkindness the path of unhappiness and then if unkindness is that how do we undo it |
| 1:38.3 | if we've been unkind or practice unkindness? People are unkind because they're unhappy. They're |
| 1:45.2 | unhappy because they've had tragedy in their life. People have been unkind |
| 1:49.3 | towards them or events have happened in their lives that cause them a lot of bitterness or hatred, |
| 1:55.0 | and in many ways they're trying to protect themselves by not letting others hurt them, |
| 2:00.0 | but in the process their biggest enemy is themselves. |
| 2:04.4 | Now, unfortunately, if you watch a lot of television or things like that, movies, |
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