Whenever you feel as though you are trapped in life and begin to resist the path before you, remember that these walls you see closing in on you are nothing more — in reality — than the hardened structure of your own thoughts struggling to conceive a way out of what amounts to what is their perception of the moment. To see this truth is to start dismantling these walls, and to act upon this truth is to walk through mountains.

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