Worry
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590. Worry is merely your response to an event. If you wish, you can refine it and even nullify it.
591. Every time you are drowned in worry, you are missing the present. Remember that.
592. Trust and worry can never co-exist. Either you have trust or you have worry.
593. Worry like desire has no beginning or end. It is up to you to begin or end it.
594. 99% of your worries never come true. The 1% that comes true is always good for you!
595. The gap between reality and your imagination is what I call tension.
596. Remember: suffering never happens to you without your silent permission.
597. Worry is the discrepancy between your expectations and reality.
598. Worry is an unwanted legacy passed down from one generation to the next.
599. Worry is a deeply embedded pattern of words in us.
600. When we watch worry with awareness, worry will dissolve and clarity will happen.
601. Worry exists only if you give it space.
602. Worry is never hope. It is a hammock that goes back and forth.
603. Surrendering to the laws of Existence is the greatest relaxation from worry.
604. Worry is created out of ignorance, and sustained by ego.
605. Our very worries become our comfort zone. We actually rest in them.
606. The confusion between our true nature and what we pretend to be, is what is called stress or tension.
607. If you take decisions consciously, you will never have any stress.
608. Worry and tension come only when you think you are the doer.