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In reading that just now, did you notice that the only things that can truly stop you are your own thoughts and emotions?

Likewise, the only things that can launch you into DOING, BEING and HAVING anything you want in life are also your thoughts and emotions.

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Likewise the one thing I cannot change about myself are the thoughts and emotions I experience. Yes, I can pretend on the outside that I'm not having those thoughts and emotions, or muster all my efforts to keep them from being seen or from affecting someone else, but that doesn't stop them from happening to me.

And my thoughts and emotions are not choices. They happen TO me. So please don't try to tell me otherwise. I agree there are choices, these lie in the realm of what to do with those thoughts -- I don't have to act on them. I can feel like I want to kill someone and still choose not to, for example. But I can't make that feeling just go away.