We’ve each been endowed with one of the greatest gifts—thought—yet we completely take it for granted. We take it for granted that the thoughts we think are the only ones we could have. We take it for granted that they represent the truth of what we’re experiencing. We take it for granted that we couldn’t choose our thoughts to be any other way than they’ve been.

The biggest catch of all is that we take it for granted that our thoughts are stemming from the only source possible.

Much like last week’s discussion on perception, we experience the effect of our thoughts without consciously recognizing that we cause the effect through the thoughts we choose to extend. It’s a loop…

We hold a belief, attitude, past memory or stored knowledge about something and when a neutral event arises in our experience, we project these stored thoughts onto it, and then we experience the effect. Our daily experience then plays out according to this loop.

When we use thoughts in this way, we create a barrier between the true essence of what …

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