-You are always feeling your thinking. You are not necessarily always feeling “the truth” or even your own personal truth.

-Thinking is not always accurate or important. It does not always indicate what’s best for you.

-Feelings are not feedback about your mental health, the state of your life, or whether you have the “right” job, partner, or dietary habits.

-Thinking isn’t dictated by anything. It just arises, with emotion tagging along, and we hold on to it and tell stories about it.

-Rather than jumping into addition or subtraction action, relax. There is nothing to do with or about bad feelings. Because thoughts are transitory, impersonal, and always in motion, feelings are too.

-Thoughts and feelings change all day every day with absolutely no effort or fanfare.

-Since you’re human, you don’t treat thoughts all the same. You hold on to some thoughts and spin them around in your mind. You give them importance and meaning. You imbue them with emotion and attention, which are the equivalent of mental superglue.

-Thoughts are like breath—when you stop holding your breath, new breath rushes in. When you stop holding your thoughts, new ones rush in, bringing new feelings in tow.

-All you ever have “to do” is nothing. The only position you ever have to take is of non-interference.

-The more you understand that your experience of life is entirely thought-created and that “you” aren’t what you think you are, your attachment to feelings—good and bad—begins to shift.

-You connect and identify with something deeper, something beyond fleeting feelings.

-Bad feelings are only your surface psychology; they can’t touch who you truly are. You can rest in your true self which is always stable and always there.

-As it turns out, much of the negative experience of emotions is the cover-up. It’s when you resist, hide, or try to change those emotions that you experience them as painful.

-Remember, when you don’t hold on to thought and emotion, new thought and emotion rushes in.

-Emotions are naturally in motion. There is an awareness and distance that prevents me from being taken down by them.