Fear, worry, regret, resentment. We may feel that these gloomy emotional states are inescapable; that the world is threatening us, or punishing us. This sense of ourselves as victims is a pernicious illusion from infancy, brought on by an absence of belonging and self-confidence and made worse by our craving for the shallow comfort of sympathy — a small substitute for love. In fact, negative thinking is a self-generated and self-fulfilling prophesy. If we are able to maintain an attitude of grateful awareness in each moment, the threatening ghosts of life disappear and our fortune — as well as our past — we will see as a continuous stream of wonderful opportunity.
Nick Hilton - Reflections 