“Every addiction stems from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain.” - Eckhart Tolle
 
How can you stand up to your fear and pain?

“The reward of winning a great battle is a greater battle.” - Erwin Raphael McManus
 
Are you able to face the darkness a second time?

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out, without ceasing.” - Robert Collier
 
What efforts are you repeating to become successful?  

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty…I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life.” - Theodore Roosevelt
 
How can you use effort, pain, and difficulty to become a better person?
 

“In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” - Andrea Dykstra
 
How can you use the awful experiences in your life to appreciate whom you have become?

“In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.” - Dan Simmons
 
How are your quick decisions shaping your future?
 

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You say "I think" ten times a day
Or fifteen times or twenty
And even more. Well, anyway
You sure repeat it plenty.
But pause and ponder half a wink
And start your brain-cells clinking;
"I think" you say, but do you Think
Or only Think you're thinking?

How often is the thing you've thought
Out of Yourself created 
And not a dictum you've been taught
And simply imitated?
Into a reverie you sink
And like an owl you're blinking,
But do you actually Think,
Or only Think you're thinking?

"I think," you say - and ladle out
Some fusty old opinion
That probably was known about
In Pharaoh's dominion.
Do new ideas ever slink
Into your cranium's chinking?
I wonder - do you really think
Or only Think you're thinking?

Traditions, customs, fill your head
And some of them have virtue,
But most of them have long been dead
They fester there and hurt you.
Son, chuck that clutter in the drink,
Wake up - don't sit there blinking!
Wake up! And then perhaps you'll Think
And not just Think you're thinking! 

“A person who fears suffering is already suffering from what they fear.” - Michel de Montaigne
 
How are you using your suffering to overcome your fears?

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.” - Tao Te Ching
 
How is your knowledge leading to the mastery of self?

“If you continue to contaminate your own home, you will suffocate in your own waste.” - Lakota Proverb
 
How do you prevent suffocating in your own weakness?