{"id":40882,"date":"2016-11-27T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T08:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=40882"},"modified":"2016-11-27T10:39:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T08:39:44","slug":"%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-150-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%af%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%a9-25112016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-150-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%af%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%a9-25112016\/","title":{"rendered":"On life (150) -\u201dThe Great Balance\u201d \u2013 25\/11\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0 \u00a0To deal with others, you need a special set of skills and experiences: for in so doing, you might either be happy or miserable. Successful human relations require that you look at the positive side of others. Here, it is worthy to quote a sage\u2019s advice to his son,<\/span> \u201cSon, our relations with others continue if we ignore their flaws, and flourishes if we are in harmony. Strictness enfeebles them, and inquisitiveness kills them. We overcome sadness with a smile, care with patience, follies with silence, and hatred with soft answers. Be unique, but never haughty. Write whatever you want without provoking anybody. Criticize people; yet do not hurt them. Man is made great by what he gives, not what he owns.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0To achieve this great balance, one has to exceedingly loving, which is why we shall recount the following story:<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Once upon a time, a man married a charming lady who he loved very much. It came to pass, however, that his country was plagued with an illness that caused the distortion of a person\u2019s face by pimples.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0One day, the lovely wife felt her face was afflicted by that disease, which made her sure her face would be distorted. At that time, the husband was away. He did not know what had become of his wife. On his way back, he had an accident and lost his eyesight.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Life, however, did not stop. Gradually, the wife lost her beauty, whereas the husband only thought of her as his beautiful wife. Their love grew and lasted until the wife passed away. The husband was exceedingly grieved. Having had her buried, and as he was about to leave alone, he heard somebody asking him, \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d \u201cHome,\u201d answered the man sadly. \u201cHow come you leave alone when you cannot see?\u201d \u201cI am not blind; I just assumed blindness lest I hurt my wife\u2019s feelings: for I got to know she was afflicted by that disease. What a good wife she was! I treated her as lovingly as I did before she got ill.\u201d The story ends here; but what if there is a similar one going through your life?<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0This symbolic story shows the crucial role love plays in making man accept many people with whom he might differ. None of us is void of defects: none of us is perfect, which is why we have to learn how to accept one another through love.<\/span><\/h2>\n

General Bishop<\/span><\/h2>\n

Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0To deal with others, you need a special set of skills and experiences: for in so doing, you might either be happy or miserable. Successful human relations require that you look at the positive side of others. Here, it is worthy to quote a sage\u2019s advice to his son, \u201cSon, our relations with others […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6804,7049,6385,7048,170,1007],"class_list":["post-40882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-on-life","tag-the-great-balance","tag-youm7","tag-7048","tag-170","tag-1007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40886,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40882\/revisions\/40886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}