Please read and contemplate quotes #686-687 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
In the twinkling of an eye, this little ripple known as the mind assumes terrible proportions. Man foolishly ascribes to the Self the sorrow and the sufferings that do not touch it in the least and becomes miserable.
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