SELF-RESPECT:
You cannot respect yourself, unless you know ‘Your Self’. When you feel offended, which part of ‘Your Self’ gets hurt? Is it the Body or the Mind or the Soul? I believe none of these gets hurt. When someone says something offensive, only the sound vibrations reaches us, than what offends us?
Is it our conditioning that gets offended? Are we programmed to react when someone insults us? Think.