How can we explain the rationale for letting go in some things to our nondevotee friends?

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we having a sense of perspective helps, okay, this is a problem, this is a problem, but which is the bigger issue to solve, so that sense of perspective is valuable even in material life, and through examples from material life we can convey this point to them, at the same time it is good if the sense of perspective is very difficult to have when a person is in rajoguna or tamoguna, in a mode of passion or ignorance we just have to do something, in a mode of passion we want to get back at that person, mode of passion means revenge, mode of ignorance means self pity, you know everybody tramples on me, you know everybody does like this to me, I am like a scapegoat for everyone, it always happens like this to the world, just keep feeling sorry for ourselves, so in the mode of goodness we just understand, okay, sometimes life gives us a bad deal, just move on, if we are honest with ourselves, sometimes life gives us a good deal also, sometimes we do one right thing but we get a very nice result for that, so generally if people are very disturbed, it is just if you can get them to the mode of goodness, just be calm, gentle, give them a hearing, let them vent their emotions, as long as the emotions are going round and round, then they keep them agitated, they keep them in the mode of passion or get them into the mode of ignorance, but once they get their emotions out, calm them down, they come to the mode of goodness, maybe have some session of prayer with them, have some little kirtan, little bhajan, just get them to the mode of goodness, then after that, they can hear, and even materialistic people also recognize that I have to keep things in, I have to keep small things small, they say, what is that saying in English, don’t sweat the small stuff, so like that, so if we can get them to the mode of goodness, they will also be able to see, get a sense of perspective, that sense of perspective becomes much clearer if we connect with Krishna, but even goodness, there also it helps.