Evan Sutter Quotes

#1. Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain

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#2. Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.

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#3. I think if our new direction in all our relationships is friendship, compassion, and enjoyment, we will easily be able to break our old cycle of bad habits and develop something deeper and more meaningful

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#4. Study yourself; it should be the first subject you learn and the one you revise each and every day

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#5. The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn't really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.

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#6. We become more devoted to pleasing other people than establishing a relationship with ourselves. We believe we are what we have and what we do and we believe we are what other people think we are. Ego is in many ways the primary cause of most of our misconception and woe.

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#7. It's sad to see how many relationships start as just a distraction from boredom, a cover up so they don't have to ever deal with the true pain below

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#8. I was a puppet on the strings to my cravings and desires.

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#9. I cannot help to see how life is a play of opposites. For all you get, you miss out on something, to go means not to come, to buy means to sell, to choose one, means to not choose another. You should enjoy your decision for the adventure that it is. It is all an adventure.

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#10. If you can't be happy and content by yourself then you shouldn't be in a relationship.

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#11. When we have simplicity we have so much more freedom in every single aspect of our lives. Maybe it's a classic case of less is more? Less stress, less worries, more time, more happiness.

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#12. When you don't know yourself, who you are and what you want, you just become a product of your environment - a leaf that gets blown each and every way until it just lands, in a big pile of mud, and gets stuck.

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