On Taking Care of Our Own Spiritual Well-Being: And not being colonized by anyone else

The excerpt below elaborates on a theme that was the basis of this post: On Being a Baha’i: When not to be nice. -gw

growing up as a Baha’i, i was always taught to look for the good in everything and always be kind. yet in the past 2 years i have learned that there is good and there is better (if not good and bad), and there are people who will suck the energy out of you and it is in no way helpful to allow them to continue to suck your energy or abuse you. i began in a small personal way to implement justice to myself. and although i always believe that compassion and mercy are for individuals and justice is only for institutions (not the individuals right to judge anyone) at some point it comes down to not judging someone else but just taking care of one’s own spiritual well-being and knowing our limits and not being colonized by anyone else. i learned in the past two years that it is not necessary to answer every question asked of me, befriend every person who stretches out their hand, or return every missed call.

http://lamaradentro.blogspot.com/2009/01/age-of-fulfillment.html