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Pay less attention to what’s in front of you
“Attachment comes when we hold onto something for fear of losing it because we believe we can’t be happy without it.
Attachment is often mistaken for love, but attachment is not love.
Love has no fear whatsoever.
Love allows everything to be free, whether those things come or whether they go.
Attachment masks itself as love, but attachment wants to grasp onto something for fear of losing it.”
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(Source: The Greatest Secret by Rhonda Byrne)
Seek What’s Off Your Radar
When we attach ourselves to people, places, circumstances, and things, we prevent ourselves from experiencing better versions of these elements that are currently off our radar.
It isn’t easy to imagine better or perfect circumstances when you’re wrapped up in your present reality. But when you’re focused solely on what’s in front of you, you miss everything outside your peripheral vision.
Attachment leads to unhappiness because we are often unwilling to let go of what’s necessary to experience what we truly desire.
What Do You Desire?
What do you truly desire? Is what or whom you’re struggling to let go of fit that desire? If not, let it go to open the door to what is trying to find you.
Happiness is a choice, and we often sabotage it because we don’t believe we deserve better than our current circumstances.
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