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I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.

Steve Pavlina

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Steve Pavlina
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 14
Author
Businessperson
Engineer
Programmer
Writer
Santa Monica
California
Belief
Coalesce
Whatever
Letting
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Reactions
Beliefs
Merely
Choose
Events
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Proactively

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