perspective...

"when you live your life from the perspective that outside events, items and people come to you with a predetermined status of "good" or "bad", you are at the mercy of the world to determine if your present moment is good or bad. you are living your life by default. this is the perspective that allows us to create the concept of being a victim.
when you understand it is you who determines whether an experience, thing or person is "good" or "bad" by way of your automatic, conditioned thinking,  you begin to see the world differently. through a gentle change in your perspective, you gain the power to make any experience educating, fulfilling and enriching".
-devo a brown

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