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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nA young man, unhappy after a recent insult by his friends, went looking for comfort from an old wise man but didn\u2019t get quite what he expected:<\/em> I saw bits of myself in this tale, so I thought I\u2019d check with you: have you given the power to be happy or unhappy to somebody else or are you in control?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inspired by \u00ab Cristal Heart \u00bb, a story by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Lenoir A young man, unhappy after a recent insult by his friends, went looking for comfort from an old wise man but didn\u2019t get quite what he expected: \u00ab Nobody is able to make you unhappy\u201d, said the old man. \u201cAlso, instead of having been insulted, let\u2019s say your friends had offered compliments. Would you have been happy?\u201d \u201cProbably\u201d, the young man answered. \u201cWell, then you would have given them the power to make you happy. It\u2019s the same thing. \u201cLife holds up all kind of mirrors for us, so that we can learn about ourselves and make progress. An insult or a compliment is just a mirror that is being held up for us. It doesn\u2019t matter who holds it up. \u201cWhen you look into a mirror and you see that you have a blemish on your face, you don\u2019t get mad at the mirror or the person holding it, do you?. You just do what you can to remove the blemish. \u201cWhat you want to do is use the mirror of others remarks to observe yourself and to observe your own reactions. Each gesture and each word that touches you is there so that you get to know yourself better, change what you need to, and move on. Happiness and unhappiness are inside you.\u201d I saw bits of myself in this tale, so I thought I\u2019d check with you: have you given the power to be happy or unhappy to somebody else or are you in control?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2289],"tags":[2344,2388,2389,2390],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n
\u00ab Nobody is able to make you unhappy\u201d, said the old man. \u201cAlso, instead of having been insulted, let\u2019s say your friends had offered compliments. Would you have been happy?\u201d<\/em>
\u201cProbably\u201d, the young man answered.<\/em>
\u201cWell, then you would have given them the power to make you happy. It\u2019s the same thing.<\/em>
\u201cLife holds up all kind of mirrors for us, so that we can learn about ourselves and make progress. An insult or a compliment is just a mirror that is being held up for us. It doesn\u2019t matter who holds it up.<\/em>
\u201cWhen you look into a mirror and you see that you have a blemish on your face, you don\u2019t get mad at the mirror or the person holding it, do you?. You just do what you can to remove the blemish. <\/em>
\u201cWhat you want to do is use the mirror of others remarks to observe yourself and to observe your own reactions. Each gesture and each word that touches you is there so that you get to know yourself better, change what you need to, and move on. Happiness and unhappiness are inside you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n