Carry on, even when the road gets bumpy. You may wish to stop exposing yourself—always so vulnerable to attack, but this is the ego that says, “Look out. Be on guard. We do not want opposition.” It is the spirit that says, “All is in perfect order. Fear not. Simply follow your heart.”
It matters not what others think or say about you, for the you of whom they speak is not the spirit-being, but the human-being. Were they to speak of the spirit-being, they would be speaking of their very self, for there is but one spirit. It is the ego in others and in you which causes the human-being to judge. Allow yourself and others to be human, but always remember who you are—a spirit-being … pure love at the core. Let others say and think what they will. It is only blindness that does the judging.