AOM Meditations: 122712

You don't have to control your thoughts; 

you just have to stop letting them control you.

~Dan Millman

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Thoughts are like children. If they're resisted or suppressed or neglected, they're going to scream, until we meet them with understanding. It's not helpful to believe that thoughts are obstacles to happiness. And we humans have been trying to get rid of thoughts for thousands of years. It just doesn't work. You can't let go of thoughts. No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts - I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

~Byron Katie

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You can close the windows 

and darken your room, 

and you can open the windows 

and let light in. 

It is a matter of choice. 

Your mind is your room. 

Do you darken it 

or do you fill it with light?

~Remez Sasson