"As the voice in your head chatters on and on try to be aware of it. Try to start becoming aware that it is a voice in your mind, that it is thought. Simply being aware that the voice is a voice, as opposed to being you, is the first step in slowing it down, calming it down, becoming free from its endless ramblings. That is all you have to do. You do not have to try to slow it down, you do not have to quiet it, simply when you hear it be aware that it is the voice in your head. Be aware that it is thought. This might be easier said than done but just try whenever you remember to. It will get easier and you will get more familiar doing this practice."
~ William Sharkey, Thoughtless: Think Less, Be More
"By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it."
"The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about."
"Many of us have spoken to ourselves in ways we would never speak to anyone else. In this way, we've acted more like our worst enemy than our best friend."
"One of the most dangerous features of anger is that anger calls forth anger, and the cycle can rapidly escalate. It takes a near-saintly character not to respond angrily to another person's anger, especially when that person's anger seems unjustified and self-righteous."
"The truth is, other people's opinions of us are none of our business. Their opinions have nothing to do with us and everything to do with them, their past, their judgments, their expectations, their likes, and their dislikes."
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