" Nobody can hurt you without your permission."

What the other person says or does cannot really annoy or irritate you except you permit
him to disturb you. The only way he can annoy you is through your own thought. For
example, if you get angry, you have to go through four stages in your mind: You begin to
think about what he said. You decide to get angry and generate an emotion of violence. Then,
you decide to act. Perhaps, you talk back and react in kind. You see that the thought,
emotion, reaction, and action all take place in your mind.
When you become emotionally mature, you do not respond negatively to the criticism
and hurt of others. To do so would mean that you had fall to that state of
low mental vibration and become one with the negative atmosphere of the other. Identify
yourself with your aim in life, and do not permit any person, place, or thing to deflect you
from your inner sense of peace, rest, and brilliant health.

                           DO YOU AGREE???