It seems that one of the perennial questions that people ask is "Where did that come from?". I recently read what I thought was an interesting answer to this question. It said, "All things begin as thought".
As I considered this I found myself looking at my watch and thinking "before this watch existed on my wrist it existed in the mind of the person who designed it". Then I thought about how time had to exist in someones mind before a device for measuring it could be invented. By then it certainly seemed that a lot of things began as thought.
Then I considered my feelings. Previous to this I had considered my feelings to be reactions to outside events. But I realized that between the event and the feeling there was a moment where I thought about and what was going on. In that moment I "chose" how I was going to feel.
Of course as this idea is expanded to take in more things it becomes more difficult to support. I cannot prove, for example, that before the earth was created it existed as a thought. However the concept that all things come from thought seems worthy of investigation.
As I considered this I found myself looking at my watch and thinking "before this watch existed on my wrist it existed in the mind of the person who designed it". Then I thought about how time had to exist in someones mind before a device for measuring it could be invented. By then it certainly seemed that a lot of things began as thought.
Then I considered my feelings. Previous to this I had considered my feelings to be reactions to outside events. But I realized that between the event and the feeling there was a moment where I thought about and what was going on. In that moment I "chose" how I was going to feel.
Of course as this idea is expanded to take in more things it becomes more difficult to support. I cannot prove, for example, that before the earth was created it existed as a thought. However the concept that all things come from thought seems worthy of investigation.
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