Don't believe anything because you read about it in a book. Don't believe anything because another man said it was true. Don't believe the words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. This is realization." ― Swami Vivekananda Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay I recently had a big argument with someone, I was arguing about what I thought was right and I finally gave up because I felt hurt and didn't want to waste my energy. The whole night I couldn't sleep well, thinking how can anyone have a bad opinion of me when I didn't do anything and the next day I was very depressed thinking why we people fight with others and hurt each other ? When we can talk politely and discuss the issue. That day, literally suddenly, I felt from inside that if people think I'm bad it means that to some extent I'm going on the wrong path and I need to look inside myself and change something inside myself rather than arguing with others. That day I realized the true meaning of self-realization, which I will talk about in this essay. The soul is the sum total of all our experiences. It struck me how this meant that every experience adds value to our soul, and there is no experience that can detract from it. “Personal revolution is much more difficult and is the first step of every revolution.” ~ Michael FrantWe talk vaguely about Self-Realization, for lack of a better term. But how can you realize or make real what is only real? All we have to do is abandon our habit of regarding the unreal as real. All religious practices are intended only to help us do this. When we stop considering the unreal as real, then only reality will remain, and we will be that. People aren't always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint or disappoint you, but you have to give them a chance first. You can't just meet someone and expect them to be everything you're looking for and then get angry when they don't match all the hopes and aspirations you've projected onto them. It is foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out better than you imagined. Different, but better. We get so caught up in selfish things, career, family, having enough money, paying the mortgage, buying a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks – we get caught up in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So let's not get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying: is that all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?” The experiences we may reject because we think they are not the right experience may actually be the same peace, joy, and love we hope to have. We think of this world as a world of opposites or dualities. But if we look closer, we find that the so-called opposites are actually just different quantities of one thing. Light and darkness are an example of this: there is no darkness, only light in the form of photons. There are no “darkons”. You can't buy a flashdark and point it at things and make them disappear. However, when there is little or no light, we call it darkness, even though there is no such thing. Likewise, the only thing that exists is our true nature, which is full of joy and love. If we feel little or no joy or love, we might call it sadness or fear, although these are really just the relative absence of joy and love. And, of course, there is often a little joy in the sadness and a little love even in the fear. Forgiveness is an aspect of, 38(4), 561-576.