Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

Samuel Rush Meyrick

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When you drop ego, you can have great fun because you are no longer taking anything personally. You are a detached observer which has a peculiar joy of its own. Ego is a source of great tension. Egoistic people are anxious, self-defensive and uptight.

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La gente tiende a insistir más en las cosas negativas que en las buenas. Entonces, la mente se obsesiona con las cosas negativas, con los juicios, la culpa y la ansiedad producidas por los pensamientos sobre el futuro y demás.

Death anxiety is greater in those who feel they have lived an unfulfilled life.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

Nervous people tend to overreact.

Sometimes, especially when practising something like mindfulness, you need simply to let things unfold in their own time. If you're anxious, you may just block your understanding. Mindfulness is about letting go, not trying harder.

Shamash Alidina

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