The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World

by Haemin Sunim

If you have developed critical intelligence but neglected emotional intelligence, then you may not be sensitive to the suffering of others.

If you have developed emotional intelligence but neglected spiritual intelligence, then you may lose hope after seeing the world’s suffering.

For unenlightened people, not every day is a good day, because they feel happy only when things happen the way they want them to. For enlightened people, every single day is a good day, because they feel free knowing that nothing can take away their wisdom.

When an unenlightened person does good, he tries to leave his mark. When an enlightened person does good, he leaves no marks.

Only when we slow down can we finally see clearly our relationships, our thoughts, our pain. As we slow down, we are no longer tangled in them. We can step out and appreciate them for what they are.