We’ve been talking a lot about taking the next step in life and not allowing the problems to bog us down and lock us up. There truly is nothing that can hold us back besides ourselves. All therapy methods and circulating quotes are all very nice and important at their stages, but the thing that will help you out most of all is when you can form those quotes on your own. When you take yourself to your very own therapy room and tell yourself that there are no more of the old games and excuses, that’s when the shift will actually occur.

This is called knowledge. You know because all the facts pointed you in that direction, and one must be a fool to disobey the signs. It reminds me of someone who saw bold signs plastered with the words “CLIFF AHEAD” but instead pressed the gas even stronger. It is as though this person wanted to be certain of the cliff so that he can become the actual sign for others. It didn’t dawn on him that the sign posted was there because somebody who didn’t have the sign stumbled and fell. We don’t have to be the sign. We have to learn to trust them.

If you want to investigate if the sign is actually speaking the truth, go ahead, cautiously, but don’t say that you weren’t warned beforehand if you fall. Knowledge is when all signs tell the truth and therefore become fact in your mind. There is no changing it for the time being, at least until we get a little smarter.

Truthfully, this is exactly how we got into our “prison of emotions.” We established facts like “this person doesn’t like me!” or “I am no good at this!” We saw signs and cemented them as knowledge in our minds and hearts, and for a long time we walked around knowing this as a fact in life and we did all that was possible to live by this truth. But we have matured past that........

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