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There is a major difference between the reality of life and our reality

There are two realities. There is the reality of life and our reality. Our reality consists of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and points of view. It exists only in our mind. In the reality of life, there are no thoughts, feelings, emotion, or points of view. There is only the truth. What’s so is what’s so. Things just are and our feelings about it are totally irrelevant.

A good way to see this is to look at an upset. Find a time when you were upset. Didn’t something happen? Yes, something happened. That’s the truth. It happened.

Now notice how totally irrelevant your feelings were about it. No matter how upset you were, it still happened. There is the truth of what happened and there are our feelings about it. The two are never, never connected in reality. They are only connected in our mind.
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