Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

You learn to not take things personally and to just let it roll off of you.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

Judging others blocks me from inner peace

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.