Excellent proverb!!! I liked it and it has to be taken as a preamble in our life. Thank you so much dear Dr. Parisa Ziarati , for your consistent, meaningful and value adding issues.
When we are young, we might be attracted by plural people of opposite sex at the same time. Those people are just those who cause us drama and poison our soul, and we need free ourselves from those as the statement quoted says.
We all love to live happily and wish others to live with the same happiness. There is no place for those who seek to disturb us and poison our lives.Our life are short and we must look for happiness for ourselves and others in this life. Thank you Parisa Ziarati for this beautiful phrase and wish you happiness and the beautiful spirit.
Our life is not bed of rosy ,it is both a mixture of pleasure & pain & for pain it is very likely that we may have to pass certain disturbing phrase of life which we may have to view in an very honest & impartial mode for which we have to honesty believe that life is a god 's given gift & we have to pass every morning by giving thanks to our Lord for giving me this day which we have to pass with our dignity , by offering thanking giving to Lord .
If we follows this practice our day will be certainly have a fragrance for us .It is in this situation we can certainly find the solution of our pain with the firm faith in our Lord for his guidance ,& grace with our own faith & will power we can certainly come out get rid of our pain .
I would also suggest to "know who you are" is to know your priorities and use them to resolve inner conflict. Often we want to have it all when knowing the one thing which is most important and making everything else subservient is more powerful. e.g. You usually can't prioritize both slacking and success. For traditional success you must figure out what you need to do to succeed and then willingly pay the price. Someone I worked with exemplified this with "I know I'm not the smartest person around but I make sure nobody else works as hard as me.".
Most people saying that phrase are referring to an intermediate level of knowing themselves as they are, not the deeper transformational search of understanding "who am I?". At the deepest level you would be talking about becoming what you are, letting false pretenses and mental images fall away, and allowing your authenticity to express itself. Page on aliainstitute.org This can be very powerful, but the risk here is that authenticity may have nothing to do with what you think you want to accomplish right now and is not necessarily an aid to succeeding in the material world or your present line of work, so it's also high risk.
Advice I constantly give, often to my sons. For some reason we feel the need to hold onto those who harm us, often immediate family or so-called friends. We develop strength by acting, not by thinking. Moving away from harmful people, stopping them from entering our lives again, is the best approach.
"The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic."