“When we take things personally, we feel offended, and our reaction is to defend our beliefs and create a conflict. It makes you easy prey for other people’s emotional poison they can hook your attention with one little opinion and feed you whatever poison they want.” “Taking things personally is a set up for suffering. Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements. We listen and we understand all the words, but the words no longer affect us. When other people are speaking, we respect whatever they say. When we have the awareness that all people live in their own world, there’s nothing to prove to anyone. Immunity in the interaction we have with the secondary characters in our story is the gift of the second agreement.
Our opinions and points of view come from our own belief system, from all the knowledge we have stored in our memory, and it’s no one’s truth but ours. The way we see the world is according to the agreements we have made. The key to this agreement is the awareness and understanding that each of us lives in our own world, our own movie, our own story. This lesson from the Online Course presents the second of The Four Agreements: Don’t take anything personally.
