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“The key is not to try harder to stop thoughts; it is in changing your relationship with the thoughts and your beliefs about them. Then, they don’t need to be stopped and are no longer fed the energy that maintains them.”

“They [thoughts] do not mean what you think they mean, there isn’t reason to fear them, and they won’t go away by resisting them.”

“The simple fact is that your attempts to keep certain thoughts from coming into your mind is what makes them come round again and feel stuck.”

“Most of your distress is caused not by what you think or feel, but how you feel about and react to what you think or feel.”