
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
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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.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
the formless energy that is responsible for the creation of all of life. It exists completely beyond the world of form. It is the eternal stillness and silence that lies before the movement and noise of created life.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
Your thoughts and feelings are like the clouds, consciousness is like the sky, and love and wisdom are like the light of the sun.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
I do not ask anyone to ignore their past experiences. This would be denial, and denial is not a healthy state. Instead, seek a clearer understanding of the past; realize that the negative feelings and emotions from past traumatic experiences are no longer true. They are merely memories, a collection of old, stale thoughts.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
each one of us is doing the best we can, given the level of understanding we are in and the thoughts that we think are true.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
You begin to see, over and over, “It’s all Thought!” and “This feeling I am now having is coming from the use of Thought and nowhere else.”
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
How do I know if my intuition is coming from wisdom, and not from my ego? Intuition that comes from wisdom has a certain feeling to it. Intuition arises naturally when our minds are clear and we are not engaged in our personal thinking. It comes fresh and it often has an element of surprise to it. The quality of the feeling lacks tension and is
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Mind is the intelligence that knows how to create every living system and how to operate those systems.