1 - feelings aren’t reliable guides to reality

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2 - feelings can influence your perceptions

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3 - the thrill wears off, you want some more

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4 - we’re born in these machines 
that make whatever it feels good fade
sometimes making us want more 
sometimes making us suffer 

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5 - the default mode network takes advantage of free time

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6 - you can decide which feeling you engage with

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7 - there are different modules trying to get your attention

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8 - you can influence which modules win or lose

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9 - choose not to be guided by thoughts that are not helpful

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10 - the thoughts are arising and 
there is a strong habit of mind
to be identified with them

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11 - very strongly conditioned habitual identification
this is how we’ve lived our lives

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12 - just as you allow or dismiss 
the spoken thoughts of your neighbours
you can allow or dismiss
the values of your thoughts

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13 - the feeling associated to your thoughts
is the glue that attaches it to you

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14 - you become a slightly different person 
as you confront situations

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15 - boundaries can be dissolved at times

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16 - if you are nothing
if you disappear
you can then be all

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17 - not attributing essence so strongly to things
can be a source of freedom

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18 - green tea still tastes like green tea
you lose the carry forward of that sensation

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19 - when you recognize the formlessness of the world
you feel the collective essence of things

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20 - this path can lead you to see the world much more clearly

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21 - it can make a dent in suffering

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22 - you can be all because there’s continuity
a continuity of emptiness, or is it fullness?

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23 - natural selection makes us unhappy, unsatisfied, makes us suffer to get us to do the work

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24 - we should be skeptical of some of the thoughts and perceptions that feelings foster