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When you release your vise grip on the rigid, fixed beliefs you inherited from society, the things can shift that need to shift for something new, fresh, wonderful and miraculous to happen to you.
The closed mind rejects evidence that tends to disprove its fixed beliefs; the open mind accepts such evidence as an indication that fixed beliefs can be modified and improved * Critical But Not Contrary-A third attitude necessary for effective discussion is that of being critical but not contrary.
After all, once our fixed beliefs about what we need in order to be happy (in a relationship, say, or our work) are revealed to have such shaky foundations, isn't that a recipe not for resignation, but for experimentation - for doing things we'd written off as "not really us" and discovering new depths to ourselves in the process?
 
 
 
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