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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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You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong.
Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
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.
The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all, while another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming.
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.
By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.