Secret of life (you're welcome) :Don't take it *personally*-(Thanks Taoists,Buddhists, Machiavelli)

[UTUSN]

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[WheelWalker]

1. "It's not about you..."

[UTUSN]

2. Hah, we get it, although it hurts!

[sanatanadharma]

3. It is totally about me!

I only have control over my thoughts, emotions, and actions. If I am bothered in life I can work to change the world around, but only have power to change myself.

If it seems that the world is an obstacle in my way, how can I remove the obstructive part from the whole?
If the obstruction is real, I can not remove it. If the obstruction is not real, I need not remove it.

The secret of life is to 'be it', not to 'seek it'.
I try to take not personally my constantly changing mind, desires, fears, memories, body, and all the senses reveal.

[UTUSN]

4. Hah! - So we say when being herded to the real or imagined inquisition chamber!

[LudwigPastorius]

5. Or, as the sage Lennon put it:

"I am He as you are He as you are me and we are all together"

Goo goo gajoob, indeed.

[UTUSN]

6. I thought it was coo coo ca choo

A lot of those "sages" and such weren't very nice. Just saw an ugly YouTube about PICASSO.