Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.

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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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There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment.

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Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

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Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

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Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be.

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We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have.

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Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

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Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

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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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