Thus, we go ahead and proceed to set another goal out of desperation in an attempt to escape all of the negative feelings gnawing away at our soul.

Other people may not agree with your decisions, but you are not here to sacrifice your peace for other peoples’ preferences. You are here to learn, grow, and love—and

In short, the moment we stop thinking is when our happiness begins.

“I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

Don’t try to use your intellect to figure it out — you won’t. As soon as you intellectualize it, you've missed it.

“I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

When we say that we want to stop thinking, many people assume that we are trying to stop all thoughts in general. This isn't what we're trying to do. Now that you know the difference between thoughts and thinking, we are working on allowing thoughts to come and flow through us while we minimize the thinking about those thoughts that emerge.

When we create goals out of inspiration versus desperation, it is a completely different story. In this state, we are creating because we feel deeply moved, inspired, and expansive. It feels like a calling rather than an obligation. It is like there's a powerful force of life coming from within us, wanting to be expressed through us to be made

What I'm saying is that although we experience a lot of pain in our lives, suffering is optional. In other words, pain is unavoidable, but how we react to the events and circumstances that happen in our lives is up to us, and that will dictate whether we suffer or not.