How to learn to see the good in a work team?translated

Reader question:

Hello! I’ve been working in the same organization for 8 years now, almost the entire team has changed, but there’s never been such a shithole as there is now. My spiritual father did not give me his blessing to leave. He said: learn to see the good in people. But I don’t understand how to do this. Tell me please.

Valeria

Priest's answer:

Priest Victor NIKISHOV

God bless you!

It’s really great that your confessor didn’t give you the blessing to change jobs because of the team. This can be an excellent school for spiritual growth.

“The viper” is not people and their characteristics, it is the atmosphere created by their actions. Your spiritual father most likely means exactly this: learn not to identify a person’s personality with the evil that he does.

Try to look at them as if they were sick. If a person intrigues, envyes, sets things up, he is deeply unhappy inside. His behavior is a marker of his own pain, fear or emptiness. This does not justify their actions, but it does allow you to think: You stop being a victim and become an observer.

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