We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Anna C. Brackett

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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.

The Ancient Sage

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Thought, thinking about past pain, projects future pain and therefore is afraid of the future.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

You're worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

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