The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.
True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.
No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.
If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.
I think the biggest thing is knowing that those thoughts of panic are probably going to go into your brain, and just accepting it... So that's been the biggest thing. Not fighting it and trying to think I'm going to have the perfect mentality the entire time. That's not going to happen.
I love thinking about mechanics and having your mind agree with the mechanics. Sometimes you can shoot it correctly, but your mind doesn't think that it's right. So it's like, how do you get your mind to trust that that's the right way to shoot it.
Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.
In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
