Master Your Chaos!
Peace is not found when life becomes easy.
It is earned when you learn to remain calm while everything around you is not.
Patience is Power!
The man who stops fighting what he cannot control becomes impossible to defeat.
You cannot be friends with someone who is not in the same wavelength, mindset, or lifestyle as you. Friendship needs alignment.
People who have not attained a certain level of self-awareness or discipline will often become uncomfortable in the presence of someone who has.
No matter how much grace, compassion, or patience you extend to such people, they will eventually feel threatened by the parts of you that remind them of what they have not become.
Instead of being inspired, they become confronted by their own shortcomings. And when that happens, two things often occur:
They will try to pull you down to their level to justify their inadequacies, or slowly buildup envy and resentment towards you. This is why outgrowing people is sometimes necessary; not out of pride, but out of self-preservation.