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“The root cause of frustration, irritation, anger, sadness is an inflexible mind — one that wants to hold onto the way we wish things were, the ideas we’re comfortable with, argues Leo Babauta.
Think of the feelings you want your circumstances to generate. Then, analyze your motives and think about how you can feel that feeling right now. Repeat until the end of time while making very little progress.
Either way, shaking the feeling that you need something else to happen outside of you to finally feel good is a difficult challenge few people I know have ever conquered, but it’s a battle worth fighting.