I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

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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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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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We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly flooding in through all of your sensory inputs.

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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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Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations of movies and plays, creating a certain environment in their home, and so on. Looking for happiness through sensations keeps you constantly searching for the next "fix" and for more varied sensations. Sensations become addictions, and nothing is ever enough.

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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

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You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.

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

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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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