The circle that turns by itself

Most people believe that the thoughts passing through their heads are their own. That is the first illusion, and hardly anyone ever checks it.

The mind is a field on which whatever was already there plays itself out: upbringing, the noise of one’s surroundings, the demands of others, learned reactions to pressure. These thoughts turn in a circle and always bring back the same chaos, while a person stands inside and wonders why his circumstances keep repeating.

You do not leave the circle by thinking about it. Every round of deliberation inside the same circle only wastes strength, and the circle stays intact.

The way out begins when you take a step back and stop being the one who carries it out. When a thought stops being the truth and becomes a sentence you watch from the side. Only when you see the pattern without emotion can you change it or let it go.

The throne is not the mind. The throne is the place from which the mind is watched.

You have exactly as much freedom as you have command over what enters you and what leaves you.

N. Ž.