The Gravity Of Thought

Thought colors our perception of the world. Thoughts inform us how to feel, what to do, how to act. They are incredibly powerful and for most of us they are the shapers of how we experience life and living.

So what thoughts are we thinking? Are we even aware of them? Do we believe them wholly as absolute truth and follow their orders without question?

A dream is a good metaphor. A reality made up entirely of thought. A simulated reality that our monkey brain accepts as real. It reacts to it and feels emotions about it.

So how is so-called waking life different?

Thought still overlays our perception, informing us of its version of the world, not of the world as it is in the now. Thought holds on to the past - it is the past - and keeps us there, living in it.

Until we wake up from the dream of thought.

Make a space if you can. A space between the thought and your perception of the thought. Take as much power out of the thoughts as you can. See that they are like planets, asteroids, suns, galaxies floating through infinite space. They each have their own gravitational pull. Some thoughts are immensely powerful and complex - galactic thoughts - if your awareness gets caught in their gravity you can be caught for days, months, years. A lifetime.

See if you can become aware of space and be free of the gravity of thought.