Choose Your Path...

"Who is talking in your head?  You make the assumption that it's you.  But if you are the one who is talking, then who is listening? ....."

"Your mind is full of knowledge, but how are you using that knowledge?  How are you using the word when it comes to describing yourself?  When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use all those symbols to tell yourself lies?  Is it really true that you are too short or too tall, too heavy or too thin?  Is it really true that you're not perfect just the way you are? 

Can you see all the judgments that you have about yourself?  Every judgment is just an opinion -- it's just a point of view -- and that point of view wasn't here when you were born.  Everything you think about yourself, is because you learned it.  You learned the opinions from Mom, Dad, siblings, and society.  They sent all those images of how a body should look; they expressed all those opinions about the way you are, the way your are not, the way you should be.  They delivered a message, and  you agreed with that message.  And now you think so many things about what you are, but are they the truth?"  (The Fifth Agreement (pg 30-31) by Don Miguel Ruiz & Don Jose Ruiz)

"The real  you is unique and it's beyond everything that you know, because the real you is the truth. ...  What you believe about yourself is not real, and it's not important unless you want to create a better story for yourself."  (The Fifth Agreement (pg 33) by Don Miguel Ruiz & Don Jose Ruiz)

"Now you know that all the acting you did your whole life was really for nothing because nobody perceives you the way you want to be perceived.  You can see that all the drama that happens in your movie isn't really noticed by anybody around you.  It's obvious that everybody's attention is focused on their own movie. ... Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and that image isn't you. ... At this point, it's clear that the people you love the most don't know you, and you don't know them either.  The only thing you know about them is what you believe about them."  (The Fifth Agreement (pg 51-52) by Don Miguel Ruiz & Don Jose Ruiz)

Bottom-Line is this, you can choose to be miserable and wallering in your perceived problems and obstacles, or you can choose to be the person you want to be regardless of how you feel others will judge you....either way, it's your choice!  More than likely you have no real idea what others are thinking of you anyway .... nor do you ever have any control over anyone but yourself!