I Don't Need A "reason" To Be

Problems Assault Us To The Degree They Preoccupy Us. The Key To Release, Rest, And Inner Freedom Is Not The Elimination Of All External Difficulties. It Is Letting Go Of Our Pattern Of Reactions To Those Difficulties.

I Am Responsible For What I See. I Can Elect To Change All Thoughts That Hurt. I Could See Peace Instead Of This. The Past Is Over It Can Touch Me Not. This Instant Is The Only Time There Is. Today I Will Judge Nothing That Occurs. I Am Not The Victim Of The World I See. I Can Escape From The World I See By Giving Up Attack Thoughts. I Am Determined To See Things Differently. I Am Never Upset For The Reason I Think. Forgiveness Is The Key To Happiness. All That I Give I Give To Myself.

Love Itself Is Not An Act Of Will, But Sometimes I Need The Force Of My Volition To Break With My Habitual Responses And Pass Along The Love Already Here.

Boredom Or Discontent Is Useful To Me When I Acknowledge It And See Clearly My Assumption That There's Something Else I Would Rather Be Doing. In This Way Boredom Can Act As An Invitation To Freedom By Opening Me To New Options And Thoughts. For Example, If I Can't Change The Activity, Can I Look At It More Honestly?

Today I Acknowledge That I Am Not In Position To Judge What Mistakes Anyone Is Making Or What Lessons Anyone Needs To Learn. I Don’t Know How Far Someone Has Come Or When That Person Will Have A Breakthrough, I Simply Don’t Know What Other People Should Be Doing. But When I Think I Do Know, I Clearly Am Not Doing What I Should Be Doing, Which Is Taking Responsibility For My Own Life.