Thoughts are thoughts.

Feelings are feelings.

Emotions are emotions.

Situations are situations.

Experiences are experiences.

Events are events.

Things are things.

This is this.

That is that.

Everything happens because it happens.

Everything happens of its own accord.

Nothing is happening to you; it is simply happening.

You suffer because you interpret everything to be happening to you.

You suffer because you’re searching for meaning behind it all.

You suffer because you think you have the power to change what is happening.

Earthquakes don’t happen to cities.

Earthquakes have always happened in that region of the world.

Humans are the ones that chose to build a city there.

When an earthquake happens, does it happen to the city, or does it just happen?

You are the city, and everything that happens to you is an earthquake.

Everything happens because it just happens.

Your judgments and interpretations are as meaningless and empty as the happening itself.