
Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being

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
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When you feel any degree of sadness, anger or fear, such feelings are like an alarm clock waking you up to the power of Thought. Feelings can then serve to point you to your true self — the formless, spiritual dimension of your being.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
When you wake up from the illusion of your personal thoughts, you wake up from everything you have been thinking. You step back from your personal thinking and, as it quiets down, you become present. You enter into the now, into pure Consciousness — free of the distortions, the limitations, and the contamination of your personal thinking.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
However, if you can see that they are only thoughts and you refuse to put life into them, they are harmless.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
As you realize that this deep quiet is always within, you will stop using your own efforts to quiet your mind. You will simply become aware of, and rest in, this eternal quiet. As you become familiar with the depth and beauty of this quiet you will naturally be drawn within. And as your realization of the nature of your being deepens further you wi
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When your thoughts become your identity that is called ego. Ego is a case of mistaken identity. You believe that the illusory thoughts that come and go are your true self. Your true self is the dimension of you that does not come and go.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
It reveals a higher order of thinking with characteristics such as clarity, insight, perspective, motivation, inspiration, creativity, and common sense solutions to your daily challenges.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
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.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
There is the thinking that you do, and the thinking that comes to you when your head is clear.