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Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

Lee L Jampolsky

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Though few would admit it, most of the time, when people are upset they don't actually want to feel differently, they want agreement and ways to make a situation, condition, or person change.
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Most of us, if we are truly honest with ourselves, have an ever-evolving and ever-growing list of what we think we must change in order to be at peace or to be happy.
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If you believe you are an effect of the world around you - that your happiness is dependent on this thing or that person - then you are always going to be a victim of circumstance to one degree or another.
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Within Inspirational Psychology, health doesn't refer to just the state of the body, but also the state of the mind, which affects the body.
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Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.
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The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love.
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The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.
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