Years ago I suffered a depression so deep, so certain, so frightening I didn’t see how I was going to survive it.
Then I learned to question my stressful thoughts.
When I did, I saw that 100% of my suffering was the result of believing a stressful thought.
When, through continued questioning, I lost the ability to believe enough of these stressful thoughts, a wave of new, more peaceful thoughts started rolling in. When I believed these new thoughts, my world became kinder, safer, and more peaceful.
Preferring to live in this kinder world, I committed to writing down all the peaceful thoughts that occurred to me and saved them here as a beacon to a world where I love what is.
I’m grateful to have this collection to revisit again and again. It has helped me tremendously.
As much as I’d like these particular thoughts to help others, I can see quite clearly that I have no idea what anyone else should think and believe.
I’ve heard from some others that they like what they’ve read here and see value in it being publicly available. I’m grateful for this perspective…and wary:
I see how this writing could be helpful to others…and also how it could be unhelpful, how these thoughts might be valuable to some, but certainly not to all. To my mind, they comprise one perspective in a sea of equally legitimate perspectives. What seems peaceful or helpful or illuminating to me, will most certainly seem stupid or erratic or upsetting to someone else. A shared thought has no value of its own to give, only a more or less satisfying reception in the mind of the receiver.
So if you’ve read this far and are interested in reading further, I leave it to you:
If you want an outside perspective to consider, you’re welcome to poke around these thoughts I like believing. Maybe you’ll find something you’d like to believe too.
And if you really want some thoughts you’ll like believing, I encourage you to question your own stressful thinking and see what arises in your own mind.
Peace.