You Are Not A Victim

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality,
their own dream.
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others,
you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Most of us believe that we have
been betrayed by someone outside of us -
in other words someone has done something to hurt us,
been dishonest or broken a promise made:
some trust in some concept was broken.
Indeed someone may have taken an action
that took only their needs into consideration,
they may have not followed through on a promise made,
and they may have not told you the truth.
But their actions have nothing to do with you
and have everything to do with them.
That's why no one can do anything TO you.
They can take actions that involve you that you may not like -
But you are not a victim, no way, no how.
- Sheri Rosenthal

We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

Further reading: You are not a victim - article by Sheri Rosenthal

Why I Choose to Believe that Others are Never the Cause of My Unhappiness

FORGIVENESS

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