It’s Just a Thought
Do you believe your thoughts are everything?
Do you believe the world is shaped entirely by your intentions?
Our thoughts are nothing more than a function of the brain that evolved to adapt more effectively to our physical environment.
You may be trapped by your thoughts right now.
You may feel that everything within the confines of your thoughts is all there is to the world.
But life doesn’t always go according to your thoughts.
There is a vast world that lies beyond the reach of your thoughts.
Within that world, your thoughts are nothing more than “mere thoughts.”
Your thoughts seek the “right answer.”
When it comes to operating a new appliance, solving a puzzle, or deciding on a travel route, the brain’s function of thinking will indeed lead you to the correct answer.
Thinking works correctly when it comes to choosing specific methods or solving logical problems right in front of you.
That is the correct way to use the brain’s function of thinking, as it was meant to be.
However, even if you try to measure your life with your thoughts, they cannot derive a “correct answer.”
Things you never imagined will happen, encounters you never expected will occur, and as these accumulate, before you know it, you’ll find yourself carried to a place your thoughts could never have envisioned.
If you fixate solely on the brain’s function of thinking in life, it creates fear and anxiety about not being able to see the “correct answer.”
You may become obsessed with forcing meaning onto things and feel tormented by the fact that you cannot find it.
But in the first place, you don’t need to seek “correct answers” in life or the world.
That is not the role of thought.
From the perspective of your life and the world, it is “merely thought.”
I believe that by thinking of it as “merely thought” (and even that thought is merely thought), you can find harmony with a broader world.