Quotable Quotes: Thinking Thoughts

Have you ever considered the miracle that is your mind as opposed to the miracle of your brain?

Physiologically the brain is amazing, but real magic lies in your mind. Not just magic, but incredible power.

As Buddha said, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

Oscar Wilde believed that “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” I imagine he would be horrified at how many people have turned their thinking over to someone else and just follow blindly along.

Amos Bronson Alcott put it differently, but arrives at the same point. “Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.”

That may be true, but Bill Watterson offers up a warning, “Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.” It’s too bad that more of us don’t think twice, if we did we would probably speak less.

Another function of you magical mind is as host for your MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy™).

I tend to agree with Charles R. Swindoll that it’s the ‘A’ that has the greatest impact on what you do with and in your life. He said, “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

That thought is one I repeat here over and over: if something is a product of your mind then it’s within your control and always your choice.

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