Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil.

I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.