Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Joel Osteen

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Don't accept delivery of all the wrong ideas that keep coming to you. ... Rest quietly in the feeling of "I am", which is consciousness, and cultivate the attitude that all thoughts, all perceptions, are "not me".

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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

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