Changeable or Unchangeable

There is a difference between an experience and how we perceive it. We tend to label everything in shades of personal appeal. Freedom, enabled by mindfulness, is about recognising this distinction and observing the moment as it is.

• Men who developed an understanding of how their brain worked and how they were reinforcing negative, self-destructive habits were able to cut pornography out of their lives completely. They were once again attracted to their wives and girlfriends, and the symptoms disappeared.
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• There are kings who are tyrants and like Nero and Domitian. And also there were kings like Marcus Aurelius, a wise philosopher-king.
• So in fact it looks like it comes down, in any way, to the inner strength and self-awareness of individuals - what they value, what desires they keep i...