“Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.”

Let’s gets uncomfortable. Our emotional experience of life
is tied to our thought patterns. Not just our circumstances. Two men can perform similar actions. One experiences joy. One experiences suffering. Why? Internal alignment. If action is misaligned with belief, it produces suffering. If action is aligned with principle,
it produces joy. So, suffering is not random punishment. It’s misaligned fruit.

A good read that dives deep into this is ” Dont believe Everything You Think” by  Joseph Nguyen