What kinds of thoughts surround you throughout the day? Do you listen to them as if they were real? Do you know they’re not?
Thought is one of the most powerful forces of human experience. Our thoughts create our reality, if we let them.
A common misconception is that what we think, how we feel, and how we experience life come from and are caused by things outside of us. In fact, our experience is wholly and unequivocally created by our thoughts. Our thoughts are also the source of our feelings.
People, events, and circumstances do not have inherent properties that cause us to have specific experiences.
I was at a funeral recently. One person passed away, and everyone at the funeral had different reactions and feelings. Some people were crying, some people were telling stories about her life and laughing, some people were thankful that her suffering had ended. Her death did not create anyone’s reality – each person’s thoughts about her death created their individual experience.
Of all the thoughts that pass through your awareness every day, which ones do you choose to listen to? Which ones do you allow to create your own reality, your own experience of life?