Thought: The Ancestor of Action

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” ~ Buddha

If we all simply step aside, into a sphere of observance, and witness the course of life unfold around us, we can learn a truth that hides nowhere but in plain sight. Wind blows, water flows, earth moves and life is abundantly born in each moment of eternal creation. Thought is the mirror to this graceful motion of nature. Thoughts are things, and are born such as life.

We humans have the incredible ability to remake the world in our own minds. We can alter it, shape it and recreate it without movement, with simple conscious thought. In fact, in one brief moment, in half the time it takes to blink, one single articulation of thought can impact a person or generations of people for millennia, and correspondingly…