When you stop taking yourself seriously, the world loses its power to hurt you. If someone can hurt you, they can also control and possess you. But you don’t want to be controlled, right? You are not the person who is controllable. The real ‘you’ is beyond hurt and domination. Ask yourself, do you want to be dominated? No! You are the one who cannot be controlled, and that is your true strength.
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Questioner: Sir, my question to you is: How can I stop taking things personally? Sir, many a times, it happens like many things and people around us affect our lives. For example, sometimes when our work is not completed on time or it is not completed perfectly, that affects our mood a lot and thus the resultant action, which is not good in any way. So, I just wanted to ask that how can I stop taking these things personally?
Acharya Prashant: You are the person, right? When you say ‘you’ take things personally, ‘you’ are the person who experiences all those things, right?
Questioner: Yes Sir.
Acharya Prashant: So, the first problem is not that you take all the things that happen to the person seriously, that's not the first problem. A lot of things happen to that person, right? There is a person and stuff is happening to the person. Someone comes and says, "Oh! You deceived me!" Someone comes and says, "Oh! You are simply incompetent!" And the person takes these things seriously, and then the person says, "Oh! It's a problem that I take things seriously”, right?
