[[Joseph Nguyen]] [[Dont Believe Everything You Think|Highlights]] > Truth cannot be intellectualized; it can only be experienced. The truth lies within a feeling, which is why it cannot be formulated into a word. If you want to find truth, look beyond the words, and look for a feeling. Many who discover the truth will describe the feeling as one of complete peace, unconditional love, and an overwhelming amount of joy. People also describe it as the most familiar unfamiliar feeling. It feels like you're finally home. In Nguyen's worldview, all thoughts come from the Universe. Thinking is a violence we do to our thoughts. By avoiding thinking, we can better connect to the Universe and avoid suffering. If you are feeling negative emotions, you are thinking too much. Nguyen's worldview is based on his exploration of spirituality, especially Buddhism. He subscribes to Sydney Bank's viewpoint that human experience is created from Universal Mind, Consciousness and Thought. Universal Mind is the intelligence behind all living things; all things are connected through Universal Mind. Universal Consciousness is the collective consciousness of all things, which allows living things to experience. Universal Thought is the "raw material of the Universe from which we can create from." We perceive Universal Thought through consciousness. Thinking is like quicksand, the more you struggle with it the worse off you are. For Nguyen, the practice of happiness is the practice of continuously coming back to Thought, ignoring thinking. "The moment we stop thinking is when happiness begins." Our role is to hold in our minds what we want and get into a state of non-thinking, which will allow us to tap into Universe Mind. > We must have complete, unwavering faith that what we want to create will come to us and we can only do this by fully trusting in the Universe to orchestrate how it will happen. We can always get what we desire in life, it just may not be on our timeline or in the way we want it to manifest. Nguyen differentiates two types of human striving based on whether the goal is one from inspiration or one from desperation. Goals from desperation are borne from a sense of scarcity and urgency. They are often a means to another goal. They come from thinking. Goals from inspiration are divinely inspired by the Universe. We pursue these goals as a calling rather than an obligation. To find inspiration, consider the question "if I had infinite money, already traveled the world, had no fear, and didn't receive any recognition from what I do, what would I do or what would I create?". As a life-long overthinker, and having struggled with trying to "think" my way out of so many of my problems, Nguyen's message resonates with me. I struggle with the idea of letting go of all thinking, but recognize the wisdom of letting go of thinking that brings me negative emotions. Nguyen includes many helpful exercises in the back of the book to promote non-thinking in work and life, to avoid bad habits, etc. Check out these exercises if you're struggling with letting go of thinking in specific contexts or want to promote non-thinking in your life.