It's impossible to worry over how others see you... and be true to yourself at the same time.
Whoever serves any form of fear, as when one struggles to keep some relationship in life that compromises their integrity, what he or she fails to see is that all they win for their service is to become more fearful.
No moment (or form found within it) exists apart from the set of relationships that sustain it – which means that fear of any form actually creates and sustains the form being feared.
There can be no greater sense of safety and security than when we are truly alone, for only in this order of oneness within ourselves lives that Wholeness into which nothing unwelcome can come.
Anytime you feel the pain that comes with "chewing" over a problem, what you are really feeling is pain chewing on you!...
The only thing we "add" to life by our resistance to it is the weight of a self-induced suffering born of needless worry.
All forms of worry are nothing more than fear disguised as the intelligence we need to get us through whatever the moment feared.