Belief creates behaviors.

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.

... you are a microcosm of Me - the Divine All, the Holy Everything, the Sum and Substance. .. the Alpha and the Omega. .. Yes, I am God, as you now understand Him. I am Goddess as you now comprehend Her, I am the Conceiver and the Creator of Everything you now know and experience, and you are My children. .. even as I am the child of another.

There is only one emotion, one energy, in the universe: the energy, the emotion, that we call Love. When you know this, everything changes.

Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

I think that whatever we encounter in life, we want to encourage a balance between the mind and the soul...and that is to consider about 50% data from the mind and 50% data from the soul. This is what Buddhists call, "the middle way."