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                 Monday, June 19, 2006
Awareness beyond thought
Your thoughts and sensations may often dominate your 
awareness. Remember, though, that your awareness exists 
beyond them. 
Even when your thoughts are completely calmed, you are still 
very much aware. The thoughts and sensations come and go, 
and behind them all is your ever-present awareness. 
The thoughts you have are the thoughts you choose to hold. 
They are not you. 
Although you may have been stuck in a negative, destructive 
thought pattern for years or even for decades, you always 
have the choice of letting it go. For ultimately, your 
thoughts do not create you or define you, and they do not 
have to hold you hostage. 
When you know that you do not have to think, then you are 
free to think whatever you choose. When you experience your 
thoughts and sensations as objects flowing through your 
awareness, then they no longer have the power to hold you 
back. 
Your mind is an enormously powerful tool that is yours to 
use as you choose. Cultivate awareness beyond your thoughts, 
and put all those thoughts to use in a positive, meaningful 
way. 
 
        
          
          
          
        
        
          
            
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