
When your body experiences cold, there may be nothing you can do to affect the temperature. “If you can’t get the world the way you like it, you internally verbalize it, judge it, complain about it, and then decide what to do about it. It’s the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes problems.” “Eventually you will see that the real cause of problems is not life itself.

The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.” Most of the talking is just a waste of time and energy. “much of what the voice says is meaningless. People go through so many changes in the name of “trying to find myself.” They want to discover which of these voices, which of these aspects of their personality, is who they really are. If you don’t understand this, you will try to figure out which of the many things the voice says is really you. “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind-you are the one who hears it. “you have a mental dialogue going on inside your head that never stops.” I wrote on what i learnt from this amazing book here.
