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.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

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.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.