Offence

People love to be offended. Just notice how sensitive you are in your relationship with the world. It doesn't take much, a glance, a word, a gesture, an action almost anything can be a reason and an excuse to make your claim to be offended.

Of course, that's never the reality of the situation, but what we really like is to make our life dramatic! To believe others have an intention to upset us, so we can take the part of the victim in our own story, and so once again justify our suffering. Suffering is always dramatic and an empowerment of self-identity, happiness is simply a lightness of being and a smile on the lips.

Actually, if we just stayed in our spiritual and emotional centre we would recognize the truth, that others can't offend us, but we can always take offence - at anything.

That others don't ever have the power to hurt us, only we can do that, and that no one can break our heart only we can do that.

The moment we put down our addictive attraction to the drama of life we will recognize our own power, and so be free from the fantasy of mind and its consequent suffering.

The world that you experience is the one that you create for yourself moment after moment, and no matter how strongly you can blame others and point your finger, you are responsible for the quality of your relationship to the moment, and so only you can change it.

Between suffering and happiness, happiness is better.

Be stronger than your old story.

May all beings be happy.