26/12/2025
πΏ Be Careful What You Tolerate πΏ
Be careful what you tolerate.
You are teaching people how to treat you.
Every time you stay silent in the face of disrespect, excuse repeated harm, or accept behavior that hurts you, a lesson is being taught β not to you, but to others. Tolerance, when misplaced, becomes permission.
π What you allow continues.
π What you accept becomes the standard.
Many people confuse patience with self-neglect, compassion with self-betrayal. But kindness does not mean having no boundaries. Love does not mean enduring harm. Understanding does not mean absorbing abuse.
πͺ· Buddhist wisdom speaks clearly here.
The Buddha taught compassion with wisdom (paΓ±Γ±Δ). Compassion without wisdom leads to suffering. Wisdom knows when to stay β and when to step back.
π If something increases suffering, it is not wholesome.
π If a relationship repeatedly disturbs your peace, awareness is asking you to respond.
Mindfulness means noticing how your body and mind react. Tightness, exhaustion, resentment β these are signals, not weaknesses. They are messages saying: something here needs to change.
π± Setting boundaries is not anger.
π± Walking away is not hatred.
π± Choosing yourself is not selfishness.
You can be gentle and firm.
You can forgive and protect yourself.
You can wish others well from a distance.
Be mindful of what you tolerate.
Because your silence, your patience, your presence β
they are always teaching something.
Choose peace.
Choose clarity.
Choose self-respect.
