1. Guidance.
HOW DO I STOP TAKING THINGS PERSONALLY?
The way we stop taking things personally is by practice. But we also need to understand why we don't have to take things personally. We need to understand that we are dreaming all the time. We are creating our own story, and we live in the story that we create. But everybody around us does exactly the same thing. They create their own story and they live in their story.
Other people think that they know us just as we think that we know them. But this is not true. We really don't know them, and they really don't know us. When someone talks about you, they are talking about a secondary character in their story who represents you; they are talking about an image they create for you.
That image has nothing to do with you; it's just a projection of that person's story. If you take it personally, if you agree and believe what others say, their story becomes part of your story. If you don't take it personally, the opinions of others do not affect you, and this helps you avoid a lot of suffering and conflict.
Don Miguel Ruiz
2. Mindfulness & Metta
Listening to Sam Harris today.
Loving Kindness Meditation is omm.
May I be filled with lovingkindness.
May I be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May I be well in body and mind.
May I be at ease and happy.
May you be filled with lovingkindness.
May you be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May you be well in body and mind.
May you be at ease and happy.
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”
– Walt Whitman
3. Prayer
Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.
Galway Kinnell
#ifyouonlyknew
4. Quote I’m Pondering via Tim Ferris
“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”
— George Bernard Shaw
