All thought is distraction ( 02 Sept 06 Sat)

All Thought Is Distraction
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A mind that is competitive, held in the conflict of becoming, thinking in terms of
comparison, is not capable of discovering the real. Thought-feeling which is
intensely aware is in the process of constant self-discovery - which discovery,
being true, is liberating and creative. Such self-discovery brings about freedom
from acquisitiveness and from the complex life of the intellect. It is this complex
life of the intellect that finds gratification in addictions: destructive curiosity,
speculation, mere knowledge, capacity, gossip and so on; and these hindrances
prevent simplicity of life. An addiction, a specialization gives sharpness to the
mind, a means of focusing thought, but it is not the flowering of thought-feeling
into reality.

The freedom from distraction is more difficult as we do not fully understand the
process of thinking-feeling which in itself has become the means of distraction.
Being ever incomplete, capable of speculative curiosity and formulation, it has the
power to create its own hindrances, illusions, which prevent the awareness of the
real. So it becomes its own distraction, its own enemy. As the mind is capable of
creating illusion, this power must be understood before it can be wholly free from
its own self-created distractions. Mind must be utterly still, silent, for all
thought becomes a distraction.

Book of Life - September 2nd