Zen and the Art of Happiness

cripples your actions

to put up the money

lamenting over situations

posed that question

you channel the activity onto the positive or the negative track

a positive, generous outpouring of good things

reaping the rewards

for your own good

your personal philosophy also determines what happens to you

If you believe that something that happens to you is bad, you will react to the events in a way that will cause you more unpleasantness, and the unpleasantness you experience then appears to confirm that what happened was truly unfortunate