These are all just your thoughts. The problem is you’re clinging to the seeming reality of these thoughts, which do not in actuality represent the reality of things as they are, but are just your projections and conditioned assumptions about reality. These thoughts are also utterly insubstantial, ephemeral, transient, and illusory by nature, since they’re a part of the universe, and of reality. The universe, or reality, possesses no labels. Reality has no self or “I.” There is nothing substantial or permanent in the universe. It is wide open space. Empty cognizance. Natural quiescence.

By nature, your mind is very much like space, which is the opposite of claustrophobia. But if you fixate, especially in an obsessive way, then you freeze the space. Instead of water you’re an ice cube. Everything is reified and exaggerated. There’s no room, when in actuality, all there is is room. So maybe sometimes try to practice sitting, upright, relaxing, with bare awareness. Simple and quiet. That will get you closer to reality than ruminating about a select few materialist scientific ideas.

—And if you take some time to just sit with yourself, and watch your thoughts come and go like traffic, you may find that you naturally possess some strength, and warmth. It isn’t just space, but there is natural warmth as well. There is a soft spot, which encompasses you and others.