Your thoughts are always hopping around, always making commentaries on everything. Buddhists rightly refer to this as “the monkey mind.” Once you give your thoughts too much certainty and centrality, they will almost immediately grab onto a legitimating emotion—tightly and righteously. Once emotion reinforces thought, or vice versa, it triples its power over you. The things you’re agitated about right now, you will not be in a few hours or days, so they cannot be that “real.” Once you know that, you can choose not to give them such power and control over you to begin with. The soul is much
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