So true...

here is a quote that i felt worthy of commenting on:

All that we are is the result of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. If you speak or act with a harmful thought, trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

All that we are is the result of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. If you speak or act with a harmonious thought, happiness will follow you as your own shadow, never leaving you.

-Dhammapada


In my opinion, this is one of the realest things in our lives, it is so prevalent where ever we go, it affects everything.

how we think , why we do certain things.

life is crazy in that, we strive to have this identity, this voice above all of our thoughts something clear and beyond words and ideas,something beyond our humanity. we find this in religion.

in reality we can't escape ourselves, so then why do we run from our humanity or make it what it is not?

Which people feel is above the mundane ramblings of today and yesterday.

Our thoughts direct our behaviors, our thoughts create prejudice and behaviors that tell us, what is "right" and what's not. Our thoughts= our culture. Even why you think about something is dependent on our environment. knowledge is liberating because it forces us to see things from all angles. and deal with ourselves as we are. But most people dont want that, they dont want to deal with themselves, why? why don't people want to hear the truth? we are all people, no one is perfect.

We have this tendency to simply see ourselves as we would like, and then we stop there, we don't look at others to better understand ourselves, our thoughts our little minds our little goals.

ideas without experience or knowledge are one of the most dangerous things on this planet, preconceptions, prejudices, exaggerations are deadly because they spell a disconnect between the people and their ideas.

millions of people die because of ideas and conceptions, concepts on how someone else is/should be, acting in response to that, and reinforcing such behavior in their minds.

thinking changes lives, knowledge opens doors, experience is necessary. humanity is organic, alive and ever-so changing, you cant pick and choose which aspects of humanity we like and disregard the rest, life is too vast to live one way. live your way but know who you are in the process.