Life is a Thought

I had a very intersting conversation yesterday. My friend Nick said to me, "Thoughts are the only way we can prove we exist". Now, I'm not a heavy philosopher, most BIG questions are really too BIG for my comprehension, but I think that statement sounds very true.

If we didn't have any thoughts we wouldn't have any knowing or awareness, and no memories either. In part, we are our memories - memories are active thoughts. Once we think something, that thought is stored somewhere and then comes back, sometimes over and over again, as a memory. So, to change our thoughts really is to change our lives.

I believe you can think yourself to success or failure. For example, if you put a 2" by 4" plank of wood on the ground and walked the length of it, most people would do it with no problem at all. That's because you thought it would be easy. If you put the same plank of wood high up, on a 25ft piece of scaffolding for example, most people could not walk across it, and many would fall off. The plank of wood is the same size, but the big difference is that you thought it would be difficult. So, you think something is difficult and it invariably is. By using this to your advantage, you can change your thoughts in wonderful ways and make your life so much more successful and richer than it is.