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Nervousness can be good, but anxiety is never good.

 Anxiety means you worry about how your future will pan out, how your past relates to it, and how in the now you are subject to endless self-judgement.  Nervousness just means life feels scary right now... which it is. 
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Empaths should never consider their own perspectives, because they will automatically doubt what is theirs.

 We should put ourselves in someone else's shoes 100% of the time. It doesn't matter who, how long we devote to them, or when we choose them.
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If someone makes you work for them to give you basic human decency, it would have never been decent.

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If you check if you were suffering 5 seconds ago, you may find that you were. But memory is unreliable. If you check how you're feeling in this very moment, you'll notice you never suffer.

That goes for 5 years, 5 months, and 5 minutes ago as well. Don't trust that. The eternal now is always peaceful.
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I imagine Christ today would say, "Mistrust not and you will not be mistrusted."

 Or... if people insist on being horrible, then mistrust them.
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I mistrust people's mistrust... unless it's plainly justified.

The only time it's plainly justified is when someone goes out of their way to cause problems. 
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The best strategy is to treat each day like a tit-for-tat game. Start out with a clean slate of generosity each morning, but don't let people slide.

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Enlightenment is smiling depression.

 Everything is suffering but I don't suffer.
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