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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peale

It’s not the noise disturbing your meditation, it’s you who is disturbing the noise.
– Ajahn Chah

The greater part of most people’s thinking is involuntary, automatic, and repetitive. It is no more than a kind of mental static and fulfills no real purpose. Strictly speaking, you don’t think: Thinking happens to you. The statement “I think” implies volition. It implies that you have a say in the matter, that there is a choice involved on your part. For most people, this is not yet the case. “I think” is just as false a statement as “I digest” or “I circulate my blood.” Digestion happens, circulation happens, thinking happens.
– Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

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