Eckhart Tolle explains how excessive thinking, especially nighttime worry, creates imagined problems that don't exist. Most human suffering comes from thought patterns we don't realize we're generating ourselves.
Humans tend to overthink. There is a lot of not only unnecessary thinking that generates unnecessary and in many cases non-existent problems, such as when you lie awake at night in bed and start worrying. It generates a lot of unnecessary unhappiness. People don't realize that a significant part of the unhappiness in their lives is actually generated by unnecessary, negative, often destructive mind activity, and they don't even know it.
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