The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The mind is everything; what you think you become

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

Your whole experience of life is in your mind.
Focus on your internal world, not external world.

The creative thought principle is very important, for as Gautama Buddha declared, “The mind is everything; what you think you become.

It's all in the mind.

Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.

This concept upends the way most people think about their subjective experience of life. We tend to place a lot of emphasis on our circumstances, assuming that what happens to us (or fails to happen) determines how we feel. From this perspective, the small-scale details of how you spend your day aren’t that important, because what matters are the large-scale outcomes, such as whether or not you get a promotion or move to that nicer apartment. According to Gallagher, decades of research contradict this understanding. Our brains instead construct our worldview based on what we pay attention to. If you focus on a cancer diagnosis, you and your life become unhappy and dark, but if you focus instead on an evening martini, you and your life become more pleasant — even though the circumstances in both scenarios are the same. As Gallagher summarizes: “Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love — is the sum of what you focus on.

Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.

Everything is mental,

Every experience you have ever had has been shaped by your mind.

Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love — is the sum of what you focus on.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.