A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
The Quote Archive
Choose from the following categories
- Acceptance
- Anger
- anxiety
- appreciation
- approval
- attention
- Attitude
- authenticity
- balance
- beauty
- beliefs
- Busyness
- calm
- Challenges
- Change
- Choices
- comfort
- comparison
- Compassion
- Confidence
- conflict
- control
- Courage
- Criticism
- death
- decisions
- desires
- Determination
- disappointment
- Dreams
- enjoyment
- envy
- expectations
- Failure
- fairness
- Fear
- feelings
- Forgiveness
- freedom
- friendship
- fun
- giving
- goals
- Gratitude
- Greatness
- growth
- guilt
- Happiness
- Healing
- Health
- honesty
- Hope
- impermanence
- Jealousy
- joy
- Judgment
- Kindness
- Knowledge
- laughter
- Leadership
- lessons
- listening
- loneliness
- Loss
- Love
- Meaning
- Mindfulness
- minimalism
- Mistakes
- Money
- Motivation
- opportunities
- Pain
- Passion
- Patience
- Peace
- perception
- Perfection
- Perspective
- Possibilities
- procrastination
- purpose
- Regret
- rejection
- relaxation
- resentment
- Responsibility
- Righteousness
- risks
- sadness
- self-love
- sensitivity
- shame
- silence
- simplicity
- Sorrow
- Strength
- Stress
- Success
- support
- surrender
- thoughts
- Time
- Trust
- truth
- Uncertainty
- understanding
- vulnerability
- Weakness
- wisdom
- Worry
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