Clear thoughts
When we are unsure about what’s going on within or without, an irresistible urge for clarity comes knocking at the door.
When that happens, some word-users seek solace in instant gratification such as pleasant sleep, pills, religion, playing cards, spectator sports, or other popular pastimes. Others seek solace in connecting with the wordless, also known as nature, watching a river flow, walking the dog, yoga, or fishing, to name a few.
Long story short
It doesn’t matter which group you belong to at different stages on your journey as things are changing, clarity cannot be achieved by hoping it’ll have stopped knocking on your door when you’re by yourself and the witnesses are gone. You must open the door to clarity and welcome it in. There’s no other way.
Clarity welcome
Once you welcome clarity, it’ll tell you that you’ve got three choices.
- You can begin by thinking about clear thoughts, hoping that clear thoughts will lead to clear words. But don’t let me be misunderstood, thinking about your thinking is the hardest thinking of all, second only to thinking about what you’ve been thinking since you began.
- You can begin by thinking about clear words, hoping clear words will lead to clear thoughts.
In the beginning
What is in the beginning? The word or the thought? Given thought is a word, the question answers itself for self-evident reasons.
3. You can begin by thinking about feelings. The benefits of feelings are manifold. When what you feel is clear, many decisions are already made. Feeling is believing. That’s because your feelings are felt, not thought, hence save you vast amounts of thinking. Though feeling is also a word, you felt feelings long before you knew it would later be a word which you learned only much later, between the ages of one to six, some faster, some slower. The trick with feeling is you must not think it, you must feel it. Feel what you are — 100% energy, 70% water, 30% fire-air-earth, 100% cells, and don’t worry if the math doesn’t add up, it will in the end. I’m not saying it’s easy. All I’m saying is give feelings a chance.
Since you don’t make choices, you make decisions, now is all up to you. Nobody else and no other word can make the decision for you. There is no candle in the window, you’ve got to find your own way home.
- “We think too much and feel too little.” – Charlie Chaplin (final speech in The Great Dictator)
- “You don’t know nothing, but you don’t need to know. The wisdom’s in the trees not the glass windows.” – Jack Johnson
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