Learn the hard lessons and watch your life become easier…

Conditions reveal our character, just as our character helps to create the conditions that reveal it in turn. This means that struggling to change some unwanted condition without first addressing the character within you that it reflects, is like blaming the mirror for what you don’t like seeing in it.

Learning to embrace the truth of this revelation is the same as releasing yourself from resentment — past or present — as well as liberating you from the painful presence of other negative states, the illicit children born of refusing to see ourselves as we are.

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