You are your thoughts, All that arises, arises from our thoughts, We make the world with our thoughts. – Buddha.
There is a Hindu story about a man, lost in a forest, who, late in the night, comes across an abandoned house. When he enters the one room building, he is sees a small cot highlighted by the light of the moon. As he lays down to rest, he notices in the dim light, a chair in the far corner and on the chair – a small coil – a snake. The stranger stays as quiet and motionless as possible. Several times he thought the snake was beginning to slither and hiss – his heart pumps faster and faster – he has trouble breathing.
With the dawn, the owner of house returns and finds the stranger dead.
He removes the coil of rope from the chair and goes about preparing the body for cremation.
That may be an extreme example, but the story illustrates the power of our thoughts – we are what we think and many people think the worst. Much of the problem is caused by the blanket of negativity that covers us everyday of our lives – the doom-boom in today’s media, pessimistic friends, unenthusiastic colleagues and...