The Four Agreements, selected quotes III

-Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true. Your opinion comes from your beliefs, your own ego, and your own dream.
-Impeccability of the word will also give you immunity from anyone putting a negative spell on you.
-How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word.
-What causes to be trapped is what we call personal importance which is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
-Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
-When we take something personally , we make the assumption that they know what is in our world and we try to impose our world on their world.
-Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds. Their point of view comes from all the programming they received during domestication.
-Taking things personally makes you easy prey for the black magicians. If you do so, you eat all their emotional garbage and now it becomes your garbage. But if you don't take it personally, you are immune in the middle of hell.
-When you take things personally, then you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts.
-There is no way that I can take this personally. Not because I don't believe in you or don't trust you, but because I know that you see the world with different eyes, with you eyes.
-Your point of view is something personal to you. It is no one's truth but yours. Then if you get mad at me, I know you are dealing with yourself. I am the excuse for you to get mad. And you get mad because you are afraid, because you are dealing with fear. If you are not afraid there is no way you'll get mad at me.
-When you feel good, everything around you is good. When everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself.
-Even the opinions you have about yourself are not necessarily true. Therefore, you don't need to take whatever you hear in your own mind personally.
-You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.