How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials, #3)

by Thich Nhat Hanh

The sixth mantra is, “You are partly right.” When someone congratulates you or criticizes you, you can use this mantra. I have weakness in me and I also have strengths. If you congratulate me, I shouldn’t get lost and ignore that there are negative things in me. When we see the beautiful things in the other person, we tend to ignore the things that are not so beautiful. We are human, so we have both positive and negative things in us. So when your beloved one congratulates you, and tells you that you are the very image of perfection, you say, “You are

And when another person criticizes you, you can also say, “You are partly right.”