The True Self...

"Let's suppose that your present system of thinking includes the
idea that other people have power to hurt and upset you.

If you
think from this idea, you will certainly get hurt and upset.


For one thing, your very expectancy draws them into the circle
of your experience.

But let's further suppose that you are so
weary of getting hurt that you decide to think from a new idea,
which is, _only the False Self can get hurt.


You reflect, 'My
True Self, which I am gradually discovering, cannot be hurt by
anyone, anytime, anyplace.'

You have now done a really remarkable
thing; namely, you have called the bluff of the False Self which
gets so easily hurt.

And you have begun to think from the new
idea that the True Self is absolutely free of all hurt.

Now, you
are beginning to change inwardly. Now, even though someone makes
an unkind remark, there is no longer a false idea in your mind
which responds in hurt to it!"

Psycho-Pictography, p. 138.... Vernon Howard