Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.
Once you detach from conflict through non-engagement, you rise to a state of empowering calm awareness, empathy and safety.
Until you quit participating in your pain, cooperating in your abuse and engaging in the contest, you will always be a part of other people's games of torment and inner-suffering.
No one can make you feel anything; you are completely responsible for how you feel.
The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.
When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others.
Everything you say to someone else is for your clarity, not theirs — you are presenting yourself, to yourself, for yourself at every moment.
When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.
Each reaction we have helps us inspect ourselves by revealing parts of our own nature to ourselves; it is never about others.
By choosing to have a calm response to what seems negative, you bring clarity and balance to your message.
