Are we our thoughts?
If not, then what are we?
2007-05-02 06:07:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Great question.
It must be intuitively clear that the observer cannot be the object that is observed. You cannot be your body because you can observe it as an object. Something stands apart from that object in order to be able to see it.
Likewise, you cannot be your thoughts. You can observe your thoughts arise, spin a story and get filed away in memory. Thoughts are objects that you are observing.
You can also position yourself as the observer and watch your thoughts arise spontaneously. There is no person who decides to think a thought. This process of choosing a thought would have to be another thought.
What you are is the silent witness of experience; Awareness itself.
Phil
2007-05-02 17:55:35 · answer #1 · answered by philmeta11 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"As a man thinketh, so is he."
Well, that may be true for men, but what about, "As a woman feels, so is she"? LOL
Just kidding. :)
Our thoughts and feelings are part of who we are, but these are not our truest essence, because thoughts and feelings can change. Within our spirits is a "heart" of divinity... a part placed there by God (when our spirits were born) that is from Him. It's integral to our souls, and cannot be denied indefinitely (except by those who commit the unpardonable sin - and must therefore be cast into outer darkness, because no light remains in them).
Somewhere deep inside, we know that our natures are divine. Daughters and sons of Divine Parentage - that is who and what we are.
My thoughts are just my efforts to try to connect to my divine nature.
2007-05-03 00:10:46 · answer #2 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe that every thing I am today is the sum total of every thing I have ever been before, every thought, every person, every thing I have kept, every thing I let go, everything I have done, and everything I didn't do, and by the end of the day, I expect to be someone else.......(changed at least a little by the day I have had).....
2007-05-02 16:28:57 · answer #3 · answered by beatlefan 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
After a deep study in this topic, I came to realize that we, and everything else, are the words of God.
Thoughts are created by the materialistic world and environment we live in, which DOES NOT REALLY EXIST. this makes us not exist too, the only existence is God, and GOD HIM SELF.
What we feel, sense, (our comprehensions) are not through the brain as many think, but from the spirit that God blew in us.
2007-05-02 13:19:23 · answer #4 · answered by Omax 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My thoughts are produced by the SOMETHING that is me. I have to exist before I can create any thoughts. Therefore, I am not my thougts; for, I cannot be comprised of something that I create (I had to come first).
That said, we are an amalgam. Body and Soul. Mind and Muscle. One goes, and the other goes, too.
2007-05-02 13:13:03 · answer #5 · answered by Jay 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I cannot accept and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill today, because they got on my nerves. And also, help me to be careful of the toes I step on today, as they may be connected to the feet that I have to kiss tomorrow. Help me to always give 100% at work… 12% on Monday, 23% on Tuesday, 43% on Wednesday, 17% on Thursday and 5% on Friday. Also help me to remember… When I am having a bad day and it seems that people are trying to wind me up, it takes 42 muscles to frown, 28 to smile and only four to extend my arm and smack someone in the face.
2007-05-02 13:11:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Our thoughts are nothing more than the biochemical processes of our brains, and our brains are just a bunch of particles operating according to the principles of physics.
We are, in short, nothing more than physics; perfect little computers running a complex system.
Some of the peripherals are fun though.
2007-05-02 13:13:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I sense an identity crisis
The dignity of the human person is rooted in his creation in the image and likeness of God
2007-05-02 13:11:12 · answer #8 · answered by Gods child 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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Thoughts can perish but you can still exist.
2007-05-02 13:19:07 · answer #9 · answered by de v 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think, therefore I am.
2007-05-02 13:10:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋