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• The ego refers to the self-identity you’ve constructed throughout your life. How was this identity created? Put simply, the ego was created through your thoughts and, as a mind-created identity, has no concrete reality.
• To start taking control of your emotions you must accept they are transient. You must learn to let them pass without feeling the need to identify strongly with them. You must allow yourself to feel sad without adding commentaries such as, “I shouldn’t be sad,” or “What’s wrong with me?” Instead, you must allow reality to just be.
• Does that mean you can’t be happier than you are right now? No. What it means is that, in the long run, external events have minimal…
• Your attitude towards life influences your happiness, not what happens to you.
• Events that happen to you bear no meaning in themselves. You give them meaning only through your interpretation of those events.