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Desires and Expectations
We try to mold ourselves, others and our circumstances to fit our desires and expectations. We want life to give us what we want now. When it fails to do so (which is fairly often), we resist and this resistance to what we can't change creates an assortment of negative emotions, like anger, loss of hope, depression, and self-pity.
This resistance is so automatic that we are in the dark about what is making us suffer. As the Woo Master says in The Woo Way, "The mind is a funny thing. It wants things its way, but life just laughs and does what it wants." When we understand the underlying power of our desires and expectations to make us unhappy, we can learn to give up resistance to what we can't change. Giving up resistance when our desires and expectations are not met helps us live happier lives.
