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just how powerful are our thoughts?



Today is the 3rd day of the 4th week, the 23rd day of the 1st month, the 23rd day of 2018, and:
  • Measure Your Feet Day
  • National Handwriting Day
  • National Pie Day
  • National Rhubarb Pie Day
  • Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day
  • Speak Up and Succeed Day
Quote of the day:

   “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

There is a large body of belief that says the world is created by our perceptions, that if we think a thing is true it manifests itself.   The Mistress of Avalon, admittedly a work of fantasy fiction [and a great read if you like an innovative reworking of the Arthurian legend], probably has the best description of how it works as the Lady of the Lake agonizes that the Christian priests and their church bells are driving the Holy Isle of Avalon further and further into the mists, into which the lands of Faerie have already vanished.   The Buddha stated "Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness, which isn’t quite the same thing as “you are what you think”, now is it?     But there is little doubt that we all don’t live in the same world, and I am beginning to doubt we ever actually did since I seem to have so little in common with my fellow citizens at times.   For example, from my black, male coworkers I have learned that despite all the marching back in the 60’s and after teaching my children to be color blind [hopefully while being culturally sensitive], there really hasn’t been a lot of change in the way that they are treated even during a traffic stop, that I will be treated totally differently and all I could do is stand there and bleat “Ithought we had come further along than that.”  .  I was an early proponent of employees becoming free agents, and thought it would bring prosperity to workers as they received acknowledgement for their knowledge, only to find out the employers saw the gig economy as a way to shed any responsibility for the welfare of their staff.   Those are just two examples where my gestalt clearly is not in line with what is actually going on.   Interestingly, the discussion over the resolution of the federal government shutdown highlights this feeling of conflict between the way things are perceived:  Trump and the conservatives are crowing VICTORY, the liberals are snarling at the Democrats for caving in, and meanwhile folks get back to work.  Which of these points of view are “correct” or “true”?  The answer is truly that it depends on how you look at it, and that goes back to your mindset and perceptions and I begin to wonder if we really can create the world that we want if enough folks think about it hard enough and often enough and refuse to let any alternatives bother them.  I have always felt that history was subject to interpretation, but now I wonder if the present is as well?  If enough of us choose to do so, can we fast forward into the 23rd century and join the Federation where no one has to worry about money?   

 

 

 

I think of things like this every time I move into a fog, whether physical or mental, and I wonder if I will emerge into a world that is the same as the one I left….
Permalink | Tuesday, January 23, 2018