Nothing is but thinking makes it so.

Posted on | January 13, 2010 |

Hamlet may have been reaching for some certainty when he said this line, but it still can guide us. Everything we think in response to an event is a construction that we are placing on that event or feeling. And it might be wrong.

If I feel I will die if I don’t buy a new car, then my thinking has made that so - not reality. If I feel my life is an empty failure then I’m presuming I can know the totality of effects that result from my life, which is arrogant, to say the least.

Yet, I can also choose to think happy, peaceful, or optimistic thoughts, even when faced with real disasters. Haiti is a disaster zone today; yet in that disaster we can see human caring, bravery, compassion and love. It’s up to us where we focus.

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