Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

“the interpreter,” as the source of the familiar internal narrative that gives us our sense of self.

When we believe our thoughts instead of what is really true for us, we experience the kinds of emotional distress that we call suffering. Suffering is a natural alarm, warning us that we’re attaching to a thought; when we don’t listen, we come to accept this suffering as an inevitable part of life. It’s not.