As Swami Vivekananda once said, "We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think." This notion is one that can be truly applied to my situation and to what Tolle teaches about the pain body -- if we think it, we feel it, and this is true for pain, happiness, contentment, self-confidence etc. For years I dwelled on the stress of bad situations, which affected my life for the worse. Today, I think positively of myself and others, which has brought me noting but contentment in my life and in myself.
As a teenager, a mentor, upon seeing my stress and interactions with bullies told me that the only person capable of dictating my life was I. While I had known this should be the case, I had never truly applied this idea to my own life, choosing instead to let my bullies shape the way my life was led. In understanding this, I was able to break free of the hold these negative individuals had on me, and really begin to live my own life, following the idea that "to forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through," as Tolle describes, continuing, "you look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence" (Tolle 7). I understood that the negativity that so many people bring into their daily lives and to their interactions come from nothing but a full focus on one's pain body and an ignorance to all that exists outside of this personal cage. In coming to this realization, I was able to get away from this hold and find my true self -- the person I wanted to be, that did not allow negative forces to stress me out or shape my life.
Additionally, in understanding that the negative forces...
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