Unsolicited, free advice is usually worth exactly what you pay for it. It is nothing more than that person’s opinion on the subject. Everyone has an opinion, but not everyone’s opinion matters. Unless someone knows you and understands your life, his or her opinion is probably not very valuable for you and will not apply to your journey.
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.
People will judge you, gossip about you, and misunderstand you. This is common if you live on this earth; it always has been and probably always will be. Every sage who has ever lived has had to deal with the same issues.
You have to learn to trust your own opinion and your own thoughts, more than those of other people. If you will get quiet and learn to go within, you will find the answers you seek.
How others see you is not as important as how [...]