Happiness is my natural state. Unhappiness, suffering is a choice. It’s common horse sense. Whatever happens “out there” or “in here,” I–only I!–choose how I am emotionally in here.
I refuse to believe some Cosmic Puppet Master pulls my emotional strings. Impossible as it may seem, despite physical pain, from a stubbed toe to terminal pancreatic cancer, when someone insults me, punches me in the nose, stabs me in the back, I choose to suffer or not! Understanding there is no necessary, automatic link from internal or environmental insult to mental and emotional pain frees me to be happy.
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