“Unhappiness doesn’t and can’t exist on its own. Unhappiness is the feeling that accompanies negative thinking about your life. In the absence of that thinking, the unhappiness, or stress, or jealousy, can’t exist. There is nothing to hold your negative feelings in place other than your own thinking. The next time you’re feeling upset, notice your thinking – it will be negative.

Remind yourself that it’s your thinking that is negative, not your life. This simple awareness will be the first step in putting you back on the path toward happiness. It takes practice, but you can get to the point where you treat your negative thoughts in much the same way you would treat flies at a picnic: You shoo them away and get on with your day.”

Richard Carlson, PH.D., in “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”

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“Simply desire to be aware and awareness is. It comes and goes with the breath. If you want to be aware, breathe! Breathe in to embrace this moment. Breathe out to release it. Breathe, breathe, breathe. Each breath is an act of awareness.

Now if I came to your doorstep and told you I was selling breaths for $5 million a piece, you would think that was pretty funny. You would tell me, “that’s very nice, brother, but I already have all the breaths I need. Of course you do. But you keep forgetting that you have them. You buying the insurance policy, falling in love with prince or princess charming, chasing doctor I can make you feel good, or swami I’ve got it all come and get it for five bucks. You know, they all have such long names, it’s a wonder you can pronounce them!

Take a breath, my friend! That’s right, a deep breath. Nobody has what you need. Did you hear me? Nobody!”

Paul Ferrini, in “The Silence of the Heart”

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“When you find yourself thinking and behaving in negative or judgmental terms, remind yourself that this is an indication of where you are at the moment and where you are not; that here may be a signal that you are identifying in some way with the judged person. What bothers us most about others quite often is something we refuse to acknowledge in ourselves, or even something we need more of! Try to be more interested in what is causing you to feel judgmental than in what is ‘wrong’ with that other person.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “You’ll See It When You Believe It”

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“The “problems we have in life – if we want to call them that – are always a direct product of our thinking. When we feel stuck in the natural perspective it’s really just because we’re thinking too much and it hurts. As soon as that over-thinking stops, the stress will also stop. You’ll fall back into the spiritual perspective automatically. This switch from the natural focus to the spiritual focus is not complicated, not matter what some people may say. Here it is spelled out clearly:

Thinking too much = Feeling stressed
Not thinking  = Feeling good

Again, this might sound over-simplistic. It’s not. Want a solution to your problems? Don’t think. The difficult part can obviously be in actually doing this. Clearly, we’re not going to completely stop thinking, but the point is we’re capable of thinking much less rationally than we’re normally accustomed to. And it helps to know that all of our stress is simply caused by thinking too much, too rationally.

Without thoughts, there are no problems.”

Neville Goddard and Tim Grimes, in “Manifestation Through Relaxation”

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“Your happiness will never come from arranging and controlling your external world. It can only come from your willingness to know yourself fully, and to express joyfully and freely from this knowing. Escape the illusion that control of your environment is the only path to happiness. Reconnect to yourself. Develop compassion for yourself. People are only cruel to each other when they withhold love and compassion for themselves. As you improve your relationship with yourself, you will improve your relationships with everyone else. So, you give the people your life the greatest gift possible by engaging in this process of self-discovery.”

Sara Chetkin, in “The Healing Curve”

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