They don't not like you, they don't like the part of them that doesn't feel good in your presence. That has nothing to do with you...liking and disliking is about them.
Michael Singer
Imagine not being afraid of what people might think of you. So many of us are people pleasers, trying to get people to "like us" so we can feel good inside, doing whatever we can so they have a good opinion of us. We feel inflated when they demonstrate approval, and deflated and ashamed when they don't. How we feel inside often depends on how others think about us. Isn't that crazy?
You see, they, the other people, are not really concerned about us at all...they are concerned about how they feel when they are with us. Are our samskara ridden personalities triggering their samskara ridden personalities? If so, they might believe they dislike us. Do our samskara ridden personalities stroke, inflate, or avoid agitating their samskara ridden perosnalities? If so they may believe they like us.
It really isn't about us all and our need for their approval has nothing to do with them at all. We all just wnat to avoid upset to our own minds and thus taht feeling of discomfort we expereince when a samskara is rising to teh surface. It has nothing to do with "other person".
\Anyway, that is the way I see it. We need to:
Be independent of the good opinion [and less than good opinion] of other people.
Abraham Maslow
Michael A. Singer/Temple of teh Universe/ Sounds True ( November, 2025) Work at the Root: Why the Mind is Restless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75RXJxYOHaQ&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=3
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