“Thoughts come to you; you do not create thoughts. Now give some profound thought for yourself right now on the significance of that starting sentence. ‘Thoughts, what I think about all day long with thousands of variations, thoughts come to me. I am not the creator of my own thoughts.’
Now, you’re going to have to want to take a long leap inside yourself to see the startling and helpful significance of understanding what you’ve heard so far. ‘Ah, I am not a creator of what I think about. I thought I did. I thought that I was the man, the woman, who manufactured thoughts which then translate, of course, into action for good and bad. I thought that I was sort of a self-reliant, self-dependent factory which could think anything I want to think. And if I want to get something, I can think thoughts that will tell me how to get what I want and then I’ll be happy. But it didn’t make me happy.’
You might add that to yourself.”
-Vernon Howard, from a talk given 6/3/1990, Vernon Howard’s Higher World
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