When criticism comes, listen. When powerful forces push you in any direction, bow rather than fight, lean rather than break, and allow yourself to be free from a rigid set of rules— in so doing, you’ll be preserved and unbroken. ~ Wayne Dyer, Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao

Be still and know.
Know in the midst of criticism.
Know when the winds of life
become gales and threaten.
Know when it feels as though
you’ll shatter, you’ll break,
you’ll falter and fall.
Learn not to argue, to challenge,
to correct. Learn from those
whose viewpoints seem lacking.
Accept the contrary, not as your own
but as what is allowed of the one
who has chosen to accept it.
Never correct. Stand in the storm,
move toward the goal,
show how it can be done,
help all to know they are acceptable,
capable, marvelous creations.
Listen. Bow. Lean.