Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.
Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.
What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.
Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.
Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.