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Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves.

This quote, humming with the flavour of the existential truth, is a gentle nudge to remind you of the mirror-like quality of human perception. When someone speaks of you, they are indeed speaking through the filters of their own experiences, expectations, conditioning, and state of being. Their words are tinted with the colours of their own psyche, their joys and traumas, their dreams and fears.

To explain further, each human has created an internal world, a personal narrative that is constantly at play. This narrative shapes how they perceive the outer world and everything in it, including you. Just as the moon reflects the light of the sun, people reflect their inner light – or darkness – onto others.

So, when somebody paints a picture of you through their words, it is more about the hues they hold inside than about your true essence. Your being, an enigma even to yourself, can never truly be captured in the words of another. You are as vast as the sky, as boundless as the ocean – no word or sentence can contain you.

Understanding this is key on the journey to inner peace. It liberates you from the chains of taking things personally, from the weight of others’ judgments, and from the entanglement in a web of opinions. It allows you to remain centred in your own truth, unshaken by the winds of external approval or disapproval.

Moreover, this insight also equips you to observe others with compassion. Understanding that their words and actions are reflections of their own inner reality rather than absolute truths, you can maintain a loving detachment, steering clear of unnecessary entanglements of the ego. It is an invitation to meet people where they are, to see beyond the veils of maya (illusion), and to dance in the play of consciousness without being entangled in it.

Live joyously, and let others live in their own way. In understanding this, you find freedom.

Love is the only mirror we should look into, and in that reflection, we will find our true selves and the eternity of our being.