{"text":"You said to your mind, 'I want everyone to like me. I don't want anyone to speak badly of me. I want everything I say and do to be acceptable and pleasing to everyone. I don't want anyone to hurt me. I don't want anything to happen that I don't like. And I want everything to happen that I do like.' Then you said, 'Now mind, figure out how to make every one of these things a reality, even if you have to think about it day and night.' And of course your mind said, 'I'm on the job, I will work on it constantly.","author":"Michael Singer","tags":["meditation","mindfulness","spiritual-freedom"],"id":4959,"author_id":"Michael+Singer"}