A few sentences from ‘Emotional Intelligence’ (Daniel Goleman) and my commentary on them.

Who among us would not want to be among those characterised by emotional self-control? Emotions are necessary, they are there to serve us, but - attention - we must not allow them to work against us. And this is why it is so important to REACT in an appropriate manner to the emotions that arise within us. They can be positive or negative.

On good and bad thoughts

SsR: "It is also important to remember two important things: we reject bad thoughts, not ourselves, and: we are not identical with our thoughts - neither good nor bad".