Many people make a habit of
weighing themselves each day, but I wonder if we shouldn’t weigh our thoughts
as well. After all, thoughts are the things that have power over our lives, and
wouldn’t it be helpful to have some knowledge of which thoughts weighed so much
that they could bully and browbeat us, and which were as weightless as the
wind? Wouldn’t it be nice to know that a thought was so insubstantial that it
was as harmless as a passing puff of spring air? Some thoughts can
create a great weight in our lives, almost like a load we carry and call our
own, and “weighing” those thoughts – seeing just how much influence they wield
with us – can alert us to their power and cause us to carefully set them down
and step away forever.
I can picture
myself in the morning, making the time to weigh a few thoughts, then setting
the heavy ones in the wastebasket and watching the light ones waft around me
and drift off while others float up from far away.
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