Thoughts on Thinking

"When somebody persuades me that I am wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?" John Maynard Keynes

"If you're unhappy with your life, change your thinking." Charles Fillmore

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." Eckhart Tolle

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them." Epictetus

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates

"Consciousness is a terrible thing to waste." PunditGeorge

Friday, June 25, 2021

Habits, Patterns, and Thoughts That Go Bump in the Night

How selective are you about what you eat?  How selective are you about what you wear?

How selective are you about the water you drink?  How selective are you about the people you associate with? How selective are you about your thoughts?

Thoughts are important and like anything important, we can carefully select them.  In order to choose how we think, we have to develop an awareness of what and how we are thinking.  That awareness provides the freedom to change our thoughts. 

Why become more aware?  Without awareness, we could find ourselves in a number of frustrating situations such as:

Fighting needless battles, not against the world, but against ourselves

Investing tremendous energy, time, and expense attempting to solve the wrong problem

Working very hard for success but not getting the expected emotional payoff

Experiencing the same unwanted condition or situation over and over...

 Welcome to the realm of Habits, Patterns, and Thoughts That go Bump in the Night.

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