Don’t Believe Everything…

I once found a bumper sticker that read: “Don’t believe everything that you think!” 

“Most people spend their entire life imprisoned with in the confines of their own thoughts.  They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”  Eckhart Tolle – Stillness Speaks.

What if we stop that thought, choose a different one, change the narrow, mind-made perception and expand the vision?   What more can you “see” and understand? 

How will your day change when YOU stop believing everything that YOU think? 

 Now, that is something to think about!

Are You Creating Problems?

When you create a problem, you create pain.  All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself.  I will create no more problems.  Although it is a simple choice, it is also very hard.  You won’t make that choice unless you are truly fed up with suffering, unless you have truly had enough.  And you won’t be able to go through with it unless you choose to live in the present moment of NOW.  If you create no more pain for yourself, then you create no more pain for others.  You also no longer contaminate the beautiful Earth, your inner space, and the collective human psyche with the negativity of problem making.  ( This is adapted from Eckhart Tolle, The Power of  NOW)

I have to stop at times to remind myself of this.  At any given moment there is no suffering in that present space.  All suffering is created from a past or a future thought.  So the next time you find yourself wrapped up in a problem, STOP!  It is not present.  Come back to the moment  now and be open to the gifts that are right here, right now. That is what is real, that is what is present and in that space everything is perfect. 

Happy Monday to all of you! I’m wishing you a day of living fully in the moment and enjoying each one.  Yesterday is over and tomorrow will take care of itself.

Thoughts

I once found a bumper sticker that read: “Don’t believe everything that you think!” 

“Most people spend their entire life imprisoned with in the confines of their own thoughts.  They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”  Eckhart Tolle – Stillness Speaks.

What it we stop that thought, choose a different one, change the narrow, mind-made perception? 

How will your day change when YOU stop believing everything that YOU think?  

 Now, that is something to think about!