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do not for the sake of laying them aside or in the expectation that you may easily do so look out for painful
ones thoughts: that would be the way not to keep them out of your mind but to keep them
in. Look out exclusively for the pleasurable ones: by so doing,
in so far as you succeed you will at the same time get in the
pleasurable ones and by so doing introducing the pleasurable you will keep out the painful ones.
By so doing: for in mind as in body by no two objects can the
same space be occupied at the same time. Matchless it is true
is the sapidity with which any two or any greater number of such
objects may succeed one another: but still succession is not co-existence:
successive is not simultaneous existence.
Without being looked after, thoughts will introduce themselves:
and in many a mind hateful more readily than pleasurable
ones. As to these painful ones It is idle to seek for
unnecessary misery. The painful thoughts that will
come must come – but add not uselessly to their
number encourage not their visitation & drive them away as fast & as far as you can.
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