An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind.... The problem is not other people it is your reaction.Vernon Howard
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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