#42

1. If you find yourself being treated in a way you resent or which turns you into a victim, ask yourself this question: “What have I done to teach this person that this behavior is something I'm willing to tolerate?”

2. Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to despite my worry moments to the contrary.

3. Buddha said: “You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger.”

4. Needing approval is tantamount to saying, “Your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself.”

5. Get your nose out of everybody else's garden. Get your own in order, and stop focusing on everybody else's. Grow what you want to grow in your garden.

6. Enlightened people move away from conflict and confrontation.

7. How harmony gets inside you is through your own thinking.

8. When you are told that you have some kind of physical affliction, you can either prepare to suffer or prepare to heal.

9. If you slip, it doesn't mean you are less valuable. It simply means you have something to learn from slipping.

W.Dyer Staying On The Path