"Don't take anything personally. Once you've taken something personally, you have agreed with it on some level. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind, in a completely different world from the one you live in. When you take something personally, you make the assumption that they know what is in your world and you try to impose what is in your world on their world. It has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements (beliefs) they have in their own minds."
^^I'm paraphrasing, but that was the Second Agreement from Don Miguel Ruiz's book The Four Agreements. Shit has helped me out a lot.
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