It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

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The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.

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I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

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I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

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I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

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If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.

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You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

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Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

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Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

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