Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.
Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself
Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.
It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.
Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?
The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: "Is this what I really want?
What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!