This is more on the theme of thoughts having power. The entire world is a result of our thoughts; its reality is not separate from our thoughts. As we think, we either reflect (false) thoughts or we create a new "reality."
"Idle Thoughts" do not exist. Thoughts have power, and every thought contributes either to truth or illusion. There was a situation in my office that was causing me great annoyance. I asked for some copies, didn't receive them quickly enough, and heard a good deal of chatter coming from the people tasked with doing the copying. My initial response was annoyance, so I had to take a moment to remind myself that my perception (people not doing the work I assigned to them and chatting instead) was merely something I had created in my mind. It was not reality. Then I tried to do today's meditation, that I have no neutral thoughts. I broke it down and noted that my thought about the people, my thought about the workflow, and my thought about people's inclinations to doing the work, were all not neutral thoughts.
Since my thoughts were not neutral, and since they have power, the next step (I thought) was to make those non-neutral thoughts into positive thoughts. Before I could do that, the copies were brought to my desk.
The take-away from this is that our thoughts have power, and they are not neutral. We may think they are, but no thought is neutral. Every thought "brings either peace or war; either love or fear. A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible."
So that's the lesson for today.
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