In life, irritations do come to you. ‘Oh, that person is no good’; ‘I cannot be with these people, they insult me’, these sort of the little things come in the mind and bother you. How do you handle this irritation? Suppose you are doing some important work and a fly comes and sits on you, would you be bothered too much about the fly? No, you would just shoo it away lightly. Know that is what all these things are. These little irritations help to bring acceptance inside you.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar