People are ungrateful for the help offered to them, not just because the help that was offered was inadequate, but because they just want a reason to continue to be the way they are. When we try to help someone and they not only do not take the help to become better, but they start blaming us for not having helped them enough, then we need to take not just a hard look at ourselves to see if we were deficient in any way, but we also need to take a hard look at them. Are they trying to send us on a guilt trip by which they can justify their staying where they are and not trying to improve at all? If that is the case, then it is best that we stop our attempts to help them and start helping someone else who is more receptive and more appreciating.

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17.16 And satisfaction, simplicity, gravity, self-control and purification of one’s existence are the austerities of the mind.