The signpost on the path to inner peace reads – “Not my circus, not my monkeys!” The people that you associate with matter more than you know, especially when it comes to your inner peace. If you are around someone, for even a short period of time, they will affect your energy either positively or negatively.
If you are continually concerned with other people’s opinions about what you do, how you look, how you dress, what you say, or how you live your life, you have made yourself a willing prisoner of other people’s opinions. Stop living your life according to other people’s opinions and set yourself free.
Don’t spend your time condemning others. You cannot possibly know what is going on in someone else’s life, nor can you know what all he has had to deal with in his past or the context of his actions.
Don’t be too attached to the outcomes of your actions; be at peace with doing the right thing. Even if you do everything perfectly, you can’t control the outcome of your actions. There will always be unexpected twists and turns...
Every action you take produces an outcome. It may or may not be the outcome that you had hoped for, but in the end, it is not the outcome that truly matters. What matters is that you have done what you think is right to the best of your ability.
Focus on making yourself better, not thinking that you are better. Don’t spend your time condemning others. You cannot possibly know what is going on in someone else’s life, nor can you know what all he has had to deal with in his past or the context of his actions.
Your thoughts become your desires; your desires lead to your actions; your actions change your life, and the changes in your life lead to continued changes in your thoughts. It is a never-ending cycle that starts with your thoughts and cycles back to your thoughts. Bohdi Sanders
This is a question that each of us should consider every now and then. Would you like you, if you met you? If the answer is "no," then you should ask yourself, "Why not?"