What’s even more freaky is the realization that, up until now, the thoughts of I’m socially incompetent, or, I’ll have nothing to say, seemed as real and concrete as, I have brown eyes, or, I am thirty-nine years old. But on the movie screen of mindfulness, thoughts like, I’ll look stupid, are just beliefs. Just thoughts. With an existential sneeze, we shift from I am not good enough, to, I hold a belief that I’m not good enough. And that difference is everything. In one astonishing moment of clarity, we shift from absolute truth to merely a thought. And thoughts? They can be changed. Or, to
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