On difficult thoughts
It is true, we are unable to stop difficult thoughts. They stab us again and again with their misery and inadequacy, knocking, undermining, deflating, deminishing... We are unable to stop difficult thoughts, but we can stand back from them to deminish their impact on our decisions and actions. When the knives of anxiety and despair are at their sharpest just take a moment and think who do those thoughts serve. They are warning me of risks and difficulties but they they don't need to enforce avoidance and aversion,
Nine of Swords
