Whatever happens around you, don't take things personal....
Personal importance, or taking things personal, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me."....
Nothing other people say or do is because of you. It is because of themselves....
When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world....
Others are going to have their own opinions according to their belief system, so nothing they think about me is really about me, but it is about them.....
But it is not what I saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself....
You get mad because you are afraid, because you are dealing with fear. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will get mad at me.....
If you live without fear, if you love, there is no place for any of these emotions. If you don't feel any of these emotions, it is logical that you will feel good.....
Even the opinions you have about yourself are not necessarily true; therefore, you don't need to take whatever you hear in your own mind personally....
We have a choice whether or not to believe the voices we hear within our own minds, just as we have a choice of what to believe and agree with in the dream of the planet...
Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simple disappear if you don't take things personally.....
If you can make this second agreement a habit, you will find that nothing can put you back into hell...
Taken from The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, pp 47-61
Personal importance, or taking things personal, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me."....
Nothing other people say or do is because of you. It is because of themselves....
When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world....
Others are going to have their own opinions according to their belief system, so nothing they think about me is really about me, but it is about them.....
But it is not what I saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself....
You get mad because you are afraid, because you are dealing with fear. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will get mad at me.....
If you live without fear, if you love, there is no place for any of these emotions. If you don't feel any of these emotions, it is logical that you will feel good.....
Even the opinions you have about yourself are not necessarily true; therefore, you don't need to take whatever you hear in your own mind personally....
We have a choice whether or not to believe the voices we hear within our own minds, just as we have a choice of what to believe and agree with in the dream of the planet...
Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simple disappear if you don't take things personally.....
If you can make this second agreement a habit, you will find that nothing can put you back into hell...
Taken from The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, pp 47-61
This is so very true for me. The whole principal makes a lot of sense. I have struggled so much with boundaries that I have taken things personally that had nothing to do with me. I have also spent a lot of time impossing my dream on other people. It is time to realize that I am not the center of the universe, that my Higher Power is and so long as I follow that power's will for me and stay true to myself I have nothing to fear. Not an easy task, as I have failed at it miserably at times, but for today it is what I will strive to accomplish.
