What you dislike is what you are turning towards || Acharya Prashant (2015)

“Only the dumb envy the talkative.”

Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

Question: Sir, who are being referred as ‘dumb’ and ‘talkative’?

Speaker: Khalil Gibran says, “Only the dumb envy the talkative.”

So, there are those, who talk a lot. And there are those, who simply cannot talk. Khalil Gibran is a master of presenting the game of duality.

He talks of a village in which there were two men – a believer, and a non-believer. And they used to hate, and envy each other, and belittle each other’s learnings. So one day they gathered at the village square, and started to argue, and the debate raged for the entire day. (Laughingly) And at the end of the day, the believer had become the non-believer, and the non-believer had become the believer.

That is the thing with the two ends of duality. They dislike each other, and they are always in the process of – turning into each other. What you dislike, is something that you are constantly turning towards.