When thought manifests as action,
that is real...
When you have a thought,
that is imaginary...
Thought is just thought,
ideas are just ideas.
Actions show us reality.
When one denies themself thought
they do so out of fear of knowledge
contradictory to what they believe is true.
To know is to learn, to differentiate, and to realize,
not to think and thus believe.
Learn, experience, realize, know.
This much we each know forms the whole of our reality.
Realizations are learned: education + thought/intuition + experience = personal knowledge
Actions are experienced & thought is processed. That is how we know knowing.
Those who seek blissful ignorance,
those with ideas and thoughts one holds true to a reality,
those who think that knowing would change how they do,
somehow have been broken.. in the mind, body, or spirit.
One thing they already know is that they're mistaken,
yet deny their simple nature, in theory, to try making living in their reality simpler.
Denial just isn't simple.. it's always increasingly difficult.
Seriously, it's simply nonsense..
Why try so hard stop progress? Keep moving or lose track of yourself...
-Vinay Patel
"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking." - Thomas Edison
"To think is to differ."- Clarence Darrow
"To be, or not to be... that is the question." - William Shakespeare
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Fear leads to anger; Anger leads to hate; Hate leads to suffering." - Yoda (Star Wars)
"Fear is the mind killer..." - Adam Freeland
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - FDR
"Fortune favors the bold." - Virgil
"You must first face your fears if you are to conquer them"
"Face your enemy, face yourself, face your worst fear." Kitana/Raiden (Mortal Kombat!)
"Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring...To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both." - St. Catherine of Siena
"What a man's mind can create, man's character can control." - Thomas Edison
"When we think, and allow our brains to function uninhibited, we are far more likely than a majority of the population to discover what has not been discovered; what is different. It has been said that the true definition of insanity is "doing the same thing and expecting different results." Thinking helps us to avoid doing the "same thing". We are more likely to find proof of why we should move in a different direction than the majority of the population – who are satisfied with living according to "cut-and-dried" traditions and norms and would prefer to exist and function through life in "auto-pilot, don't-raise-dust" mood.
Virtually every great person and entity has, throughout history, had to plough on in a direction different from the norm, and endure mockery and opposition, in order to achieve what they achieved. The only way to discover this "different direction" has been – and still remains – to Think, to throw every possible option open to questioning and challenge, and consider even the seemingly "crazy" idea." - Omo Alagbede