Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being

When you let go of judgmental thinking your spirits lift and you see life with more understanding and compassion.

Thought generates every moment of mental activity, or thinking, that is going on inside your head and inside everyone else’s head. It creates all the forms of your mental activity, such as ideas, concepts, beliefs, impressions, images, and intuitions. The Principle of Thought is also the power that creates everything you feel and all of your emotio

Love is the very nature of life. It is your very nature to love. It’s built into the very fabric of life for you to be unconditionally generous and giving. It’s only when you get caught up in your thinking that you lose sight of that which is invisibly living you.

Just for a moment, consider what it would be like if you realized not a single thought that you had was true. In that moment you would be completely free of the influence of any concepts that were created in your head.

Realizing the Principles leads you to this natural meditative state. When you wake up to the fact of Thought, you stop being influenced by your personal thinking and you rest in the now.

All that is required to discover this silent mind is a very subtle shift in attention away from the waves and the turbulence, away from the things of the world, and toward the space that is always there — quiet, welcoming, present, waiting.

The Principles invite you to look within, toward the formless source of experience. The Principle of Thought invites you to look toward the fact that your feeling experience is created from inside of you. “Inside” refers to the formless nature of your being, rather than from “outside” of you — that which has already been created. The Principle of C

The insight that nothing the other person says or does is causing you to feel the way you do then generalizes into all your relationships.

still get caught up at times. Everyone does. The difference is that with understanding you become more comfortable with being caught up. You just get better at being relaxed about it and waiting until your thought storm goes away. You continue to have more trust that it will go away, and that wisdom will break through. You don’t have to do anything

Feelings are just passing thoughts. You can’t prevent thoughts from coming into your head. When you see your feelings as friendly and useful, you can use them as a guiding system that opens your mind to new thinking. So you don’t have to do anything when you don’t feel good. Left to their own devices, feelings change naturally anyway.