Your whole perceived reality is a reflection of your inner self.

If you don't like what's being reflected at you, don't waste time trying to change the reflection.

Change yourself & use the reflection to gauge your progress.

I recommend starting with reading "The 4 Agreements".

Then implement each of them.

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Love it. Although management is another form of coping. A self soothing tool.

I heard someone put it quite well: you’re not driving the car, you’re tied up in the trunk!

I didn't mention management.

What did you mean by management?

Changing yourself. Tracking progress. Collecting karma points. Management is trying to control or track something.

It’s just another coping mechanism

Your actions, thoughts & feelings are all downstream from your beliefs.

You can really only change yourself by shifting your beliefs.

We have free choice only in the agreements we make, in what we believe.

Belief is not a prerequesite. Anything conditional is in relation to something. Anything in relation is separate.

Of course there is the idea of changing yourself, but why construct a new point of view when you can cut out the middle man and drop all views altogether?

There’s a reason it’s called the absolute.

If that's what you believe to be true, them the whole universe will support you in your belief.

Awakening is the end of beliefs

This is a lovely sentiment, but it isn't always so.

Look deeper 👁️🪬

Looking in the mirror and expecting to modify the reflection without changing yourself is impossible.

“When I was young and clever, I tried to change the world….Now I am old and wise and I’m changing myself”

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You can't see what you don't understand. Be civil to all, sociable to many, known to few. Embody the rare qualities and very few will able to see you afterwards.

Since you've found bitcoin you've probably ditched or drifted away from at least one circle of acquaintances in your former life. It's simply that you can't relate anymore to certain traits and habits. Sometimes it happens suddenly, but most likely it's a gradual shift. Notice how your former crew is less and less present in your life until you become a fading memory in their lifes and them to you.

It's not about alienating people, but more like about making space for your new friends and adventures. As much as you'd like, some are not yet equipped for what's to come. It is not your place to force anything on them, especially what you strongly believe to be true. Bitcoin is such an example, although it's obvious the best form of money and more, forcing it on someone is detrimental to them in most cases. Each will come when they are ready.

You'll meet them again but it will be another you and another them when the time comes. You're mostly water and water is best when it flows. When it becomes stationary it transforms into a puddle.

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