Personal Thoughts or Spiritual Ideas

Moment to moment there is a choice to pay attention to either personal thoughts or spiritual ideas. There is a meaningful difference between the two. Thoughts are personal, as they are about ourselves and others. They are unreliable and change often as they are conditional and limited by our experiences.

Ideas are spiritual as they express spiritual qualities and they are non-personal, non-conditional and always beneficial. Our experiences express what we are paying attention to, either personal thoughts or spiritual ideas.

What we consider thinking is just paying attention to the thoughts of others and the cultural environment we live in. Spiritual Ideas spontaneously reveal themselves, or sometimes we can ask ”what is needed now?” and they come to our attention.

An example could be when we are in a struggle with others. While in the conflict we are paying attention to proving we are right and someone else is wrong. These combative  personal  thoughts  can become a trouble­some experience.

If we find we would like to get out of the conflict and resolve it our attention has begun to shift. Then with the spiritual view we could ask “what idea can help me now?” and the answer comes as the spiritual idea “Peace. What is needed here is peace.”

Then we become more interested in being peaceful than being in conflict, winning and being right. We no longer engage in the struggle, which was just a personal thought. This is the healing value of a spiritual idea. 

If the spiritual idea of peace was more universally valued over personal thoughts of being right and getting our way, the world would be a more peaceful place for all to live.

It is good to know that we do not have to dwell in the confinement of personal thoughts. At any moment we can be set free with spiritual ideas. This is the Spiritual View.