What you see is often what others want you to see, and what you think is often what others want you to think.

Your beliefs, your predictions, even your sense of right and wrong—they’re all implanted in your mind by others.

Many people never stop to ask themselves: Is the happiness you’re chasing actually happiness, or is it just something you’ve been conditioned to perceive as happiness from the start, which is why you pursue it so relentlessly?