Do What You Love And The Necessary

Avoid People And Situations That Upset You. Those Things, People, Situations, And Experiences You Dont Like--avoid Them. Stay Away. Walk Away. Do Something Else. Some Might Call This Cowardly. I Call It Smart. The World Is Brimming With Things, People, And Experiences. We Will Never Experience All Of Them If We Live To Be 10,000. So Why Not Associate With The Ones That Naturally Please You?

Running From Fear Only Strengthens Fear-you Are Demonstrating That Fear Has Power Over You. Fear Must Be Faced And Gone Through.

Prison Is A Crash Course In The Darker Side Of Life. Few Survive It Without Becoming A Different Person: More Cynical, Jaded, Fearful, Angry. Its Hard To Trust Again, Hard To Believe, Easy To Hate A System That Destroyed Your Life Behind The Pompous Pretense Of Saving You From Yourself, For Your Own Good.

This Is Our True Wealth: The Riches We Take With Us, The Joy We Carry Inside, The Support We Learn To Give Ourselves, And The Self-loving That Flows As A Natural By-product Of That Support.

Acceptance Is Such An Important Commodity, Some Have Called It "the First Law Of Personal Growth".