On a certain day, a lady went to sleep. In her sleep, she had a dream. She saw a hunk of a man, staring at her. Then he started coming closer—closer and closer. He was so close that she could even feel his breath. She trembled—not in fear. Then she asked, 'What will you do to me?' The man said, 'Well, lady, it’s your dream!'

“What’s happening in your head is your dream,” Sadhguru, a modern yogi, tells this story in his book ‘Inner Engineering.’ “At least your dream should happen the way you want it, shouldn’t it? Even if the world doesn’t happen the way you want it, at least your thoughts and emotions should happen the way you want them to.”

Thoughts are things.