For example, if we do something that makes us feel silly or embarrassed, our mind might have the thought, “I shouldn’t have done that,” or “That was stupid of me.” If you take a thought that small and you start to really open it, you’ll see right away that thought and feeling are linked; one is actually the doorway into the other. The thought, “I shouldn’t have done that,” comes with a feeling—perhaps the feeling of embarrassment or anger. In this we see the inner worldview of the thought, and how it pulls us into identification.
