So we respond as if we must change them and what they think or we get angry and hurt - and the game begins. The truth is that no matter what another thinks of us, does to us or says about us, the power is in our decision about how to react. No matter what another wants or asks of you, you have the right to decide whether you will give that. No matter what another says, you have the right to decide whether you believe it. There is nothing and no one in the world that we are able to control.
Life just happens.
The power never leaves us so long as we understand that the control is always inside of us - in our response to all that life brings, and all who are in it. Relax, watch the dance and stand in affectionate, loving detachment. With the gentleness of a feather on the cheek of a beloved and the incredible awe and care one gives a newborn, we were cradled in the warmth, power and adoration of limitless love. Why then do we find it so difficult to love ourselves, give ourselves all due any precious child of the universe. What would life be like if you knew for a certain that there was nothing in you to forgive - because there isn't.