"Apart from concentration camps, suffering is largely subjective. If you really want to suffer, try personalizing everything that happens. When some bozo crowds you on the pavement, you can always wonder, 'Why is he doing that to me?' That always works." — Russell Targ
What are you noticing about how often you personalize things?
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for Mindful Monday
Source: Targ, Russell. Do You See What I See? Memoirs of a Blind Biker. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub. Co., 2008, p. 60.
Photo Credit: "Dogs," Kristine Paulus, 2009.
Wow. That sounds painful. Thinking, “It’s all about me.” Yikes!
Targ is referring more to how we unconsciously believe that we have a self to whom things happen, rather than understanding that things just happen.