A familiar state of mind is comfortable, whether it be confusion, fear, anger, happiness, contentment, optimistic, pessimistic, worry, or anything at all. Familiarity is comfortable. Without proper control, the mind will seek the familiar state, regardless of other factors. This holds disregarding importance, relevance, desires, evidence, advice, and all. “Familiarity breeds comfort, not contempt,” to modify a common aphorism. A “healthy” state of mind perpetuates itself, and ditto for an “unhealthy” state of mind. As you know some folks are just plain unhappy and continue to be so, even though their life is good or not, whether they prosper, whether they love, whether they have power or not, whether they progress or they decline. This (unhappy) state of mind becomes familiar (= comfortable). They deal with it on a daily basis. They sustain it! Breaking free is incredibly difficult. We call this the Law of Permanence.
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