Be like butter - easy to cut through. Nothing abrades you. You are not an obstacle to another. Someone doesn’t like you? What care you? You do not resist. You do not resent. You let go of resistance, for resistance amounts to hard feelings. Don’t have hurt feelings in the first place. Whatever occurs in life, your hard feelings are not to be one of them. Be like butter.
Nor are you easily flattered. You are not high and mighty. Nor are you laid low. Have you not had enough hurt feelings now to last a lifetime? Be done with hurt feelings this minute. The world is not to buoy you, nor is the world to put you down. Be your own Tour Guide.
No longer do you live in a world where offense takes over, and you are like dried hard stale bread crumbling from the past. Soft as butter, you are not a sob-sister. You are someone who knows what is significant and what is not. Your world does not hinge on your being well-received. What is it to you when someone does not favor you? It is not an ordinance in the world that everyone has to favor you.
It feels like a tragedy to you, yet why? Does your life really depend on someone else’s receptivity? Do not cast someone off because he or she needs more than you can give them. Do not make your life a trade-off. If someone lacks joy to give you, does that have to be your problem? Does being liked or not liked have to be your modus-operandi? Can you not be who you are regardless of what and where someone else happens to be at a given moment?
Because others appear to be hard-hearted, do you want you to be hard-hearted? It is not a feather in your cap to be as vulnerable as you may be. Truly, your life is not to go up and down dependent upon someone else’s consideration or lack of consideration.
Do not be a bouncing ball in life. Do not even be invincible, for invincible often seems to relate to battles. Don’t be in a battle. Do not partake of hard feelings.
Remember what I have told you. Do not depend so much on where other people are at any given moment. It isn’t that you resist having your feelings hurt. You don’t fight against another. You do not deride others for their decisions. They have every right to decide yes or no for themselves, just as you do.
Are hurt feelings to be the temperature of your life? Are you a batted ball in life? What exactly is so important that someone is required to favor you? How much do you favor others when you choose not to like them for their not liking you as much as you would wish?
Do you really want anyone to be obligated to you?
Some people are generous. Some are not. Whatever someone else is or is not, they are not the making of you.
Be who you are regardless of how someone else rates you. You have Me. I am yours. I value you highly regardless of whatever this one or that makes of you. Don’t make much of someone else’s evaluation of you. You are responsible for your own feelings. No one else is the making of you. You are the making of yourself. You are your own Created Being. Be influenced from Above. Be your Self regardless of what small matters amount to. What someone else thinks of you is not what your life rests upon. Don’t take everything to heart. In this sense, all events are not equal.
If someone wishes to be generous with his or her heart, wonderful. If someone does not want to be generous with his heart, bless him just the same. If you feel unable of being easy-going like butter, be like air then. Be like a butterfly, light of touch. Let go, let go, let go.