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Things to learn after falling apart

Things to help us notice about ourselves, our patterns, and our thoughts. 1

  • Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
    • If you don’t face your old habits and past experiences, they will control your life, and you won’t even have a choice.
    • You’ll think life is just “bad luck” or “fate,” but really, it’s your past running the show.
  • Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
    • People annoy us because they remind us of things in ourselves that we don’t want to see.
    • We all have parts of ourselves that we don’t want to look at, and when we see those same things in someone else, we might be annoyed. This is called projection.
  • Shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
    • Do not use someone else’s standards to measure your life.
    • What works for one person might not work for someone else.
    • There’s no one-size-fits-all.
  • The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
    • Some things won’t be repaired; they can only be overcome.
    • We don’t defeat them; we just become a person they can no longer touch. We don’t “figure things out”; we become someone who doesn’t have to. This process is called Reframing.
  • Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
    • Most people try to fix their problems by changing everything around them, rather than looking within themselves.
    • Instead of asking “Why does this always happen to me?”, we should ask “What am I doing that is leading me here?”