Dear Choose Happy Community,

When others are caught in anger or hostility, it’s easy to get pulled into the same energy. This teaching reminds us that real strength is keeping our own consciousness clean and steady. Light does not fight darkness. It simply shines, and darkness disappears. When you stay rooted in clarity and act from that center, you stop feeding what you wish would fade. Strength is choosing light, again and again.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“ If I become aware that other people are energizing enmity, my task is to keep my consciousness clean, always. Because otherwise, if I engage in feeling enmity toward the people who are feeling enmity, I’m just energizing more of what I would prefer not to make visible in time and space.

“We are here also to act, and to be aware. And so think about the way light acts. Light vanquishes darkness by being itself. Light expands. So for you to be in contact with the energy of light and to expand from that center sharing light, do you feel the difference?”

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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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