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Finding Happiness by Shedding Projections, Expectations and Rejections

Finding Happiness by shedding projection and expectations, by Gary Douglas. Photograph of birds by Ibrahim Rifath

Photograph by Ibrahim Rifath

Choose to become open and happiness will flow in

Have you ever been judged by someone?

Do you know somebody that has decided something about you, and no matter how hard you try, no matter what you do, they will not change their mind? Perhaps they decided you are mean. Or maybe selfish. Or angry. Whatever their conclusion of you, they are holding tightly to it no matter what.

Have you ever been the one judging?

What points of view do you have about others? What points of view do you have about you? A judgment is any fixed point of view that someone or something has to be —

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