Temper expectations with common sense

For this very reason, it is easy to deal with animals, because their behavior remains the same in every situation. What is needed to deal with them is common sense not intelligence, because you are dealing with their core nature, not with their intelligence and they behave true to their core nature, not out of intelligence. You cannot deal with a snake the same way you deal with a dog. It’s simple to deal with animals.

Why then the difficulty with human beings? 

Because human beings deal with one another out of intelligence even when in a relationship. Two people who are in a close relationship like husband and wife or father and son, cannot deal with each other based on intelligence but should deal out of common sense.

The problem comes when one uses intelligence or only emotion. 

Animals are easy to deal with because they never change, but human beings change; until they are in a relationship. Then what overtakes everything else is expectations in the relationship and that will never change. 

There are four types of expectations: What you expect from others, what others expect from you, what you expect from life and finally what you expect from yourself. Any disturbance, anger or anger arises only when there is doubt in any one of these expectations either to be expressed or experienced.

We live out of expectations. 

To gain acceptance is to meet expectations and to meet expectations you need common sense.

Things cannot happen and people will not react always as per your expectations and your choice. Sometimes unexpected things will happen, but that does not mean what is happening is necessarily wrong. This is awareness of a spiritual person. At such time expect the unexpected. 

To have a beautiful life accept the unexpected to expect growth. This is the difference between spiritual awareness and human intelligence. Wishing you a life of happiness, success and growth. Why do we use intelligence with human beings and common sense with animals? 

Example: Mother-child, husband-wife. Each one knows what is expected from the other. Rather than intelligence, work based on expectations from the relationship, that needs common sense.