Couple of quotes/exercises

You think you are thinking a thought but the thought is thinking you

Don't make anything important and keep your mood up

Think act feel. Think about how you'd like to feel and act that way for 20 minutes even if you don't feel that way. After that you will feel the way you want. Check it out.

(from school talk#53)
(certainly living in a state of grace is very different from living in a state of stress)
You'd better believe it.
(would you comment on this alternative to stress--that is, living in a state of grace)
 Well, I'm talking about making ourselves very available to grace. Grace is not making things important.
Grace is being in charge of my own inner state of being and being in charge of my responses to circumstance. Now it is grace that we even heard these teaching ideas.