Shift your focus from the external to the internal. Realizing your inner potential you will worry less about how others perceive you. Not depending on the external world for your sense of security you will be living from your intrinsic nature. You will be living authentically. Learn to use the external world to develop your internal world through sincere self-observation.  

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