That sort of person is bound to do that. You might as well resent a fig tree for secreting juice.
Date Recorded: 12/19/2023
If an action or utterance is appropriate, then it’s appropriate for you. Don’t be put off by other people’s comments and criticism. If it’s right to say or do it, then it’s the right thing for you to do or say.
The others obey their own lead, follow their own impulses. Don’t be distracted. Keep walking. Follow your own nature, and follow Nature—along the road they share.
Date Recorded: 1/30/2024
In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them.
Date Recorded: 2/15/2024
So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.
Date Recorded: 2/22/2024
Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds.
Date Recorded: 5/16/2024
Don't pay attention to other people's minds. Look straight ahead, where nature is leading you—nature in general, through the things that happen to you; and your own nature, through your own actions.
Date Recorded: 7/2/2024
Look at who they really are, the people whose approval you long for, and what their minds are really like. Then you won’t blame the ones who make mistakes they can’t help, and you won’t feel a need for their approval. You will have seen the sources of both - their judgments and their actions.
Date Recorded: 7/9/2024
It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
Date Recorded: 815/2024