How to stop thinking (8)

You are not the thoughts in your head. Not even remotely. You are the awareness of the thoughts in your head. Awareness is the great power, the universal intelligence. That’s who you are!

Boom!

Our thoughts and feelings are completely unbidden. We don’t say, ‘Now I’m going to worry for 20 minutes,’ and then do just that. Our thoughts and feelings cannot be controlled. They happen to us. And then something untoward occurs. We get attached to them.

Into the darkness

If a counsellor has a goal, then it is likely this—to save his client some time. Buffaloes charge straight into stormy weather. Their experience of wind and rain is briefer that way.

Pothead

The ungoverned mind churns, roils, bubbles and pops like the over-heated contents of a cannibal’s cauldron.

What I want

We feel the way we want to feel. Even pain has its attractions.