200% – An Instruction Manual for Living Fully

You will come to a place where life makes sense. Where everything is easy, and fun, and fluid. And your mind just doesn’t have the same grip over you anymore. Where pain still may happen, but you are completely free from suffering. This place is true. It’s the only true thing in the whole world.

There will be emotions. That is okay. Emotions can be there, no problem. Accept them; just don’t get lost in them. Re-read the chapter on acceptance. See the difference between noticing the experience of the emotion and getting into the mind’s story about the emotion. It is always the story that hurts, that ends in chaos.

Love “Don't change: Desire to change is the enemy of love. Don't change yourselves: Love yourselves as you are. Don't change others: Love all others as they are. Don't change the world: It is in God's hands and he knows. And if you do that change will occur, Marvellously in its own way and in its own time, Yield to the current of life unencumbered

the game of 200% – a game based on full and complete responsibility for everything that happens in life, responding not reacting, and finding the silver lining in everything.

be thankful now, secure and stable in the knowledge, even the assumption, that the future turns out in the best possible way for you.

Past/future thinking

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs – ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Harold Thurman, American civil rights leader and theologian

“Why is this happening FOR me?” An excellent state of affairs, wouldn’t you agree?

Now, where you clearly cannot or do not wish to change or leave a situation you find intolerable, the third and only option left to you is full and complete acceptance.