Mind-Constructs

It is easy to imagine that life is just happening to us, as though we had no part in directing the three-dimensional movie going on around us. Yet according to Buddhist contemplative psychology, and some Western psychological theories as well, our exerience of reality--how we see things, what they mean to us, how we fell and resspond to them--is largely constructed by the mind, this means that the mind can also undo the suffering it has created. -- John Welwood, Toward a Psychology of Awakening, 48.