Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.