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Our life is what our thoughts make it.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

Our best thoughts come from others.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.