If you think too much about yourself...

If you think too much about yourself, you

• Make yourself unhappy.

• Fuels worry and anxiety

• Feel cut off from others.

• Feel apart from who and what matters.

• Will think less about others the more you think about yourself.

• Compare yourself with others – either worse off or superior to others.

• Live in unfulfilled fantasies.

• Keep facing disappointments with others.

• Feel cut off from closeness with others.

• Will not be able to handle others.

• Will set up boundaries to keep out difficult people.

• Feel something is missing in your life.

• Will not find wholeness.

• Will not find true fulfilment through dependency on self-interest, self-help and self-compassion.

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Wise thought arises through being grounded in the present.

Wise thought reveals an absence of problematic states of mind.