Would You Rather Be Right, Or Happy And At Peace?

Even if my body is injured, hurt or damaged,
I can only be emotionally hurt if my thoughts
are that my body, things, situations, people, or life
should be different than how they are.

Always, it’s only my thoughts
that can cause me emotional pain and suffering.
Not even what somebody else does
to me physically can do that.

My body might hurt,
ache or bleed, but
I only suffer emotionally over
that if and when I
believe that my body
shouldn’t do those
things yet still it is
doing those things.

Always, it’s only my thoughts
that can cause me emotional pain and suffering.

If I believe I should be
asleep when I’m awake in
the middle of the night,
being awake causes me to
suffer.

If I believe
my thoughts, words and actions
affect somebody
else’s happiness, and someone
around me is unhappy with
what I’ve thought, said or done, then
my thoughts, words and actions cause me to
suffer.

If I believe I need
somebody else’s acceptance,
approval and understanding
to be who I am and do what I do,
and I don’t have their acceptance,
approval and understanding,
then I suffer without it.

It’s always my thought or belief that causes my
emotional pain or suffering, not what somebody else does
or doesn’t say or do, and not how the situation does
or doesn’t play out.

I do not control anybody
else’s happiness, just
as they do not control
mine. My thoughts
determine my happiness
and nobody else is in my
head telling me what
to think ~ just me. In
each moment, I choose
happiness or sadness,
trust or fear, peace
or war based on the
thoughts I choose to
believe and how believing those
thoughts makes me feel.

The same is true for everybody else.
So, if somebody tells me that I
made them angry or hurt their
feelings, it’s not true! It’s
their thinking about what I
said or didn’t say, or did or didn’t
do, that makes them angry or
hurts their feelings.

This is so subtle, yet so profound!

So, if I tell somebody that they
made me angry or hurt my
feelings, it’s not true! It’s
my thinking about what they
said or didn’t say, or did or didn’t
do, that makes me angry or
hurts my feelings.

I can choose to be right and justified in
my anger and hurt, and keep believing my thought,
or I can choose to be happy and at
peace by exploring and investigating
my thought. The question then becomes,
“Would I rather be right, or happy and at peace?”