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to your thought. You need positive, right thinking for what you want to become. Thought is not a cause for being, but it is instrumental to becoming.
Many people say there is no need to think. They are confused rather, there are two phases to thinking. When you are in deep meditation, you leave your thoughts on the surface; but when you return to the surface, you use the energy and power of meditation to enlighten your thought. You throw a light on that thought so the thought will shine.
You might have noticed on the highway a kind of paint which reflects the light of the headlights of passing cars. It is not actually light, it has no power of its own. It simply receives and reflects light. Our thoughts are like this paint. They don't have their own light but they need light. When you throw light on them, they reflect, they shine, they become bright. But when there is no light, they are in a guideless position.
Meditation is a kind of power or light. Used properly, there is nothing you cannot touch, nothing you cannot solve. Meditation is a very precise way of using your thought to solve the problems of daily life. Without it, your thoughts will become fantasy or will jump from one subject to another. Like Hamlet, you will be unable to come to a decision. Many people pass their whole life in the process of "to be or not to be" and before they decide, their time is over. But through meditation, your thoughts will become stronger and stronger and you will have confidence in yourself. You need this
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