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The other phrase that has hardened into cliché through overuse is “positive thinking.” When it is oversimplified and used as some quick-fix mantra, positive thinking becomes a way of whitewashing or sugarcoating your reality. When you are unable to process real-time information and control your psychological drama, you seize on “positive thinking” as a tranquilizer. Initially, it might seem to imbue your life with new confidence and optimism. But it is essentially limited. In the long term, if you deny or amputate one part of reality, it gives you a lopsided perspective of life.
Inner Engineering
Sadhguru
Almost every negative emotion you experience is the direct outcome of an attachment. So, there you are, loaded down by your attachments and striving desperately to attain happiness precisely by holding on to the load. It’s absurd, but this is the only method that everyone has been taught for attaining happiness, yet it’s a method guaranteed to produce anxiety, disappointment, and sorrow.
Stop Fixing Yourself
Anthony de Mello
He laughed again. “Merciful Tehlu, it almost killed me.” He shook his head. “No. You don’t get to go behind the four-plate door. But,” he gave me a conspiratorial look. “Since you are a Re’lar…” He looked from side to side as if afraid that someone might overhear us. I leaned closer. “Since you are a Re’lar, I will admit that it exists.” He gave me a solemn wink.
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
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