The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.
William JamesExperience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
William JamesThe good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
William James