If you want to suffer, reject this moment.
If you want to be at peace, accept this moment.

You are not your mind.
You are not the thoughts and images in your head.
You are the awareness that can be aware of them.

Descartes was wrong. It is not “I think, therefore I am.”
Rather, “I am, therefore I can be aware that I think.”

As long as you are completely identified with the thoughts and images in your head, as long as you are completely identified with your mind, you will never find lasting peace and happiness.

This is because...