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Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just means that you won't cause yourself emotional discomfort because of the way things are in this moment.

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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.
We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have.
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.
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.
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
You should always be aware that your head creates your world.
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.
Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that you'll have insights as to what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you.
Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.