Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you.
--Then where is harm to be found?
In your capacity to see it. Stop doing that and everything will be fine.
Date Recorded: 1/23/2024
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Date Recorded: 2/6/2024
The mind is the ruler of the soul. It should remain unstirred by agitations of the flesh - gentle and violent ones alike. Not mingling with them, but fencing itself off and keeping those feelings in their place. When they make their way into your thoughts, through the sympathetic link between mind and body, don’t try to resist the sensation. The sensation is natural. But don’t let the mind start in with judgments, calling it “good” or “bad.”
Date Recorded: 2/27/2024
Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one.
Date Recorded: 4/18/2024
I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled? What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
Date Recorded: 5/23/2024
For every action, ask: How does it affect me? Could I change my mind about it?
Date Recorded: 8/20/2024