You Become What You think: Insights to Level Up Your Happiness, Personal Growth, Relationships, and Mental Health

Although few people realize it, everyone has what I call an “acuity gap.” This is the gap between your perceptions of the world, what you see, and the realization that these perceptions are created via your own thoughts. Liken your acuity gap to your level of consciousness. The narrower your gap, the better you understand that you feel your thinkin

When you wake up to the power of Thought rather than being immersed in the content of your thinking, it brings you into the now. When you are in the now, you still have a flow of thinking coming through you that creates your ups and downs. These ups and downs are normal for all of us to have. But when you don't manage your experience, you have more

They all began by realizing a truth so basic that it is usually invisible: the fact that (in the words of the Greek philosopher Epictetus) “we are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.” As soon as they grasped that truth, their whole understanding changed.

In the same way, if you try to deal with each conflict, each emotion, and each negative thought as it occurs, you’re like the nomad trying to cover the world with leather. If, instead, you work at developing a loving and peaceful mind, you can apply the same solution to every problem in your life.