Our Mind

Our mind is the most amazing organ of our body and was made to be conquered by us.  It's command central and it can run you all over the gammit of every subject if you let it in a matter of minutes. Everything has its beginning in the mind.  We have been in the dark about the role our minds place. 

I started to learn in the Bible that I need to be thinking upon good things, things that are noble, pure, lovely etc.  In fact the Bible says meditate on these things.  The Bible says the mind set on the flesh is death but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.  In my experience, I've not heard a lot of teaching on the mind in religion.  This is a very important subject because as I said in an earlier post we create our own reality and it happens by the way we think.

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.  The Bible

Thought is the highest known form of organized energy.  In the realm of thought, mans knows no limitations.  Napoleon Hill

A man is the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes.  Mahatma Gandhi

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.  Benjamin Franklin

I learned this from someone long ago that the mark on the forehead in the book of Revelations is the state of a person's mind.  Either they have the mind of God (love, joy, peace, patience etc) or they have the mind of the flesh or ego (jealousy, envy, strife, gossip, slander, etc).  I was thinking about all of this yesterday and thinking I believe this to be really true.  My life started to change when I would not let myself think bad thoughts.  This is not easy because your ego wants to do this and you will have a battle on your hands.  But I promise you, that you will start to change once you enlist in this battle.  I enjoy life and peace a lot more than I do death and that is what those negative thoughts bring.

No one really knows what happens when we die or how heaven really is.   I read this allegory and thought it was a very interesting way of looking at "heaven".  What if it is really this way, would you start being more conscious of the way you are thinking?

"Behold a world peopled with beings of your own creation, which correspond exactly to the nature of your own thoughts as you expressed them before death.  There they are, the children of your own heart and mind, patterened after the image of your own thoughts. Those that were born of your hatred and envy and jealousy and selfishness and injustice toward your fellow men will not make very desirable neighbors, but you must live with them just the same, for they are your children, and you cannot turn them out.  You will be unfortunate indeed, if you find there no children that were born of love and justice and truth and kindness towards others."

"If there is a possibility that every thought you release during this life will step out, in the form of a living being, to greet you after death, then you need no further reason for guarding all your thoughts more carefully than you would guard the food that you feed your physical body."