For each outer-world person or thing or place you’ve experienced in your life that is a known, you have an emotion connected to it because emotions—which are energy in motion—are the chemical residue of experience. And if most of the time you’re living by those addictive stress hormones, you might use your boss to reaffirm your addiction to judgment. You might use your coworkers to reaffirm your addiction to competition. You might use your friends to reaffirm your addiction to suffering. You might use your enemies to reaffirm your addiction to hatred, your parents to reaffirm your addiction to
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