Find ways to keep your head out of the clouds of misinformation that are being beamed around the world as information. It is not so simple to stay out of the sway of collective public opinion. Center yourself in remembrance and vision, whenever you can.
“This is a very strange world: you are asking people, “Who are you?” and they don't know themselves, and you depend on what they say about you -- you depend on it. You go on collecting information. That's why it hurts when somebody says you are a fool. Why does it hurt? Let him say that you are a fool; just by his saying it you don't become a fool. But why does it hurt then? It hurts because all that you know about yourself depends on public opinion. Now that opinion comes from the same source -- from the outside -- from where you have been collecting the opinion that you are very intelligent. Now you are in a contradiction, that's why you are upset, disturbed. Now he has created a contradiction. Now he has created trouble for you, he has created a dilemma. Now you are again confused, you don't know who you are.”
Osho, excerpted from The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 12, Vol. 12, chapter 9
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