I received the following from Steve Chandler this past week and wanted to share it with you:
In my 17 Lies book I enjoyed writing about one of the finest thinkers of our age: Marilyn vos Savant, the person who has the highest IQ ever measured. She once wrote a weekly magazine column, and I was always intrigued by the simplicity and power of her intelligence. One time a reader wrote to her about the relationship between thinking and feeling:
Dear Marilyn:
What is the difference between thinking and feeling?
Colleen Kelley
Spokane, Washington
Dear Colleen:Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
Marilyn
The lie I was trying to dramatize is the lie that says our feelings of upset and annoyance are caused by the behavior of others. They are not. And the freedom that comes from seeing that they are not is exciting to experience. Feeling is only and always what I get for thinking the way I do.
Be well,
Steve Chandler
