Looking Into My Mind
How Can We Govern the Endless Stream of Thoughts? Thoughts never stop. From the moment we wake up until we fall asleep, countless thoughts arise within us. Even during sleep, dreams can sometimes reflect thoughts, memories, and emotions that remain active in our minds Good thoughts and bad thoughts appear one after another. We think about our friends, our parents, our loved ones, our jobs, our future, our youth, our old age, money, success, possessions, and relationships. Our minds are constantly comparing, judging, choosing, accepting, and rejecting. What is remarkable is that these thoughts arise on their own. We do not deliberately command them to appear, yet they continue without rest. They seem to emerge naturally from somewhere deep within us. During dreams we continue to judge situations, feel joy or sorrow, experience fear or relief, and even struggle with problems that do not actually exist. When we wake up, the same process begins again. We judge, compare, love, ...