Happiness Is Experienced Largely In Striving Towards

Religious Creeds Encourage Some Of The Craziest Kinds Of Thoughts, Emotions, And Behaviors And Favor Severe Manifestations Of Neurosis, Borderline Personality States, And Sometimes Even Psychosis.

You Have Considerable Power To Construct Self-helping Thoughts, Feelings And Actions As Well As To Construct Self-defeating Behaviors. You Have The Ability, If You Use It, To Choose Healthy Instead Of Unhealthy Thinking, Feeling And Acting.

If People Stopped Looking On Their Emotions As Ethereal, Almost Inhuman Processes, And Realistically Viewed Them As Being Largely Composed Of Perceptions, Thoughts, Evaluations, And Internalized Sentences, They Would Find It Quite Possible To Work Calmly And Concertedly At Changing Them.

Strong Feelings Are Fine; It's The Overreactions That Mess Us Up.

By Not Caring Too Much About What People Think, I'm Able To Think For Myself And Propagate Ideas Which Are Very Often Unpopular. And I Succeed.