The Secret to Mental Health: An Operating Manual for the Human Mind

Thought determines the form that mind takes in our own personal life. Some people use thought to create a painful, harsh existence. Other people use thought to create a gentle and enjoyable life.

it was her fears that took away her emotional stability.

To understand an idea means that that idea becomes real to the person not just something with which the person intellectually agrees.

see those thoughts for what they were and realize that his memories were no longer real. I suggested to him if he could see them as thoughts masquerading as reality, then these memories would lose their power.