Revenge is the mode of ignorance — it’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else. Monks don’t hinge their choices and feelings… - Jay Shetty

Revenge is the mode of ignorance — it’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.

We may feel empty, lost, broken, and hurt, but the soul is unbreak-
able. The Bhagavad Gita spends seven verses talking about the indestructibility of
the soul. “That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestruc-
tible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. The soul can never be cut to
pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by
the wind. This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither
burned nor dried. It is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable
and eternally the same.

When we criticize others, we can't help but notice the bad in ourselves. But when we look for the good in others, we start to see the best in ourselves too.

We have a choice: we can either change our mindset or change what we don’t like. We need to get in the habit of assessing ourselves and making efforts to improve our own lives.