CHAPTER 10
Our crazy thoughts
“There’s nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (HAMLET)
Our thoughts, by which I mean our conscious thoughts, are the key to the way we experience life. Our thoughts, with the help of our unconscious programming, generate most of our feelings and actions. Our thoughts are the main determinant of our happiness or unhappiness. By and large we’re happy if we’re thinking happy thoughts and unhappy if we’re thinking unhappy thoughts.
This book is largely about thoughts. Everything we’ve talked about concerns the way we think. Paccepting what is, accepting our feelings, paccepting ourselves, understanding we and others were doing our best, choosing powerful actions, owning our ...
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