Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.