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Train yourself to fight the Autonomous Loop so as to see the world as it is, not the way you see it. View things in an objective manner by looking at them through other pairs of eyes. Routinely declutter the mind.
Research shows that mammals have an average set number of heartbeats for their lifetimes. Giraffes average about 680 million heartbeats in their lifetime, rabbits about 970
million, monkeys about 1.5 billion, and us humans get about 2.2 billion. For humans, however, with the advent of modern medicine, we can push the general estimate to about 3 billion.
Stop for a moment, close your eyes, and listen to your heart beating. Each beat brings you closer to the end. Tick tock. Never forget this and let this motivate you to live a ...
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The day you die is not death. Every day is death. Every day is another day gone by that you will not get back. The day you die is simply the last death. But every day is death. The past is gone. You can learn from it, but there is no option to change any of it. The future holds a sc...
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Fate is not you. You are you. External factors do not determine how you feel at any given moment. You do. Your judgment of the event does. You have the controls, so use that control instead of giving into the bad coding.
The day you can ignore all emotions without it affecting you or changing your behaviour or thoughts in any way is the day you have reached nirvana, a peace infinitely more gratifying than happiness.
You get upset when things do not go your way. So just go the way things are, then everything is your way.
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
If your judgment still believes someone wronged you, remind yourself that this was a mistake on their part due to one of three reasons: They were not objectively seeing the world as it is and were seeing it only through their eyes, and therefore did not even realize they were wronging you. You, knowingly or unknowingly, wronged them. They in return sought vengeance (an eye for an eye) as they do not know any better. They are the type of being who derives joy from the misery of others and wronged you on purpose, once again for a lack of not knowing any better.
