The more our mind wanders, the less happy we can be.

You must learn to respond in a positive way to a negative condition. Now the negative condition that you have is in you. You’re it.
Therefore, when you respond in a positive way to a negative condition, you are working with and on you, never, never, never with anything exterior to yourself.

Now, to respond in a positive way to a negative condition really means recognition of the thing that is wrong, the depressed thought, the excited attitude because you think you’re going to gain something.

What you have to do therefore is to simply say to yourself, which is a positive statement, 'I feel pain and strain, therefore there is something wrong.' Isn’t that great? Vernon Linwood Howard

Guy Finley: Allowing the rushed state of another person to push you into an anxious state of mind is like letting the horse you're about to ride convince you to wear the saddle! more

Dr Judith Orloff (www.drjudithorloff.com), author of the national bestseller The Ecstasy of Surrender, talks with the national television show "The List” about the benefits of silence & how to let go of all the chronic noise and constant mental chatter in one's life.

You swing your world from right to left accord­ing to your dictum. Be sure to enter into sleep nightly with this thought: “Divine Wisdom is demonstrated by the perfect judgment with which I administer upon affairs.” Emma Curtis Hopkins

This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:

I am responsible for what I see.

I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve.

And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked.

Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear. ACIM Ch.21

“When your values are clear, your financial decisions become easy.” David Bach

Guy Finley explains that a true, daily prayer naturally formulates in a spiritual aspirant once they clearly see their own weaknesses and realize the necessity for being brought into conscious relationship with higher help.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts

"Correct learning consists largely of unlearning wrong attitudes and acts. " Vernon Linwood Howard

What you desire you will see. Such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world. ACiM Lesson 20

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are not residing on another planet with a different reality system. William James

Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment. We're often happiest when we're lost in the moment. And the flip side: The more our mind wanders, the less happy we can be. https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_killingsworth_want_to_be_happier_stay_in_the_moment?language=en

Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy

'... there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so' Hamlet ~ Shakespeare

 "It is not the function of God's teachers to

 evaluate the outcome of their gifts.

It is merely their function to give them.

Once they have done that they

have also given the outcome,

for that is part of the gift.

No one can give if he is

concerned with the result of giving.

That is a limitation on the giving itself,

and neither the giver nor

the receiver would have the gift.

Trust is an essential part of giving;

in fact, it is the part that makes sharing possible,

the part that guarantees the giver will not lose,

but only gain.

Who gives a gift and then remains with it,

to be sure it is used as the giver deems appropriate?

Such is not giving but imprisoning."

 ACIM TM.6.3