The Mirror

It is often said: be careful what you wish for, because it can come true. Today I am reflecting on the desires that we, unconsciously or consciously, express or think about. Inspired by the Dutch author Berend Smit and his work “My Book”, I have started to thoroughly observe my thoughts, and especially my wishes.

According to quantum physics our thoughts create an energy field that manifests itself physically. Let’s say that, as Berend Smit says, our current reality is a product of our thoughts. What I would like to discuss today is the difficult issue of desires. Are our thoughts desires?

Let’s imagine that everything we think throughout the day are desires we send to “space”, which get materialized in our real world. Can you imagine that? We often don’t notice it, but we spend the whole day producing thoughts. And that’s not the end of the story. These thoughts are tremendously chaotic, because we don’t even stop to listen to them. We do not listen to our own thoughts, nor do we sort them carefully so that we have them at hand when we need them, as we would do with our course notes, our bills and other papers that we handle in life. As for our “thought chaos”, can you imagine the landscape, if our thoughts were physically manifested? Clutter and chaos, and most of it rubbish. We are creating thoughts only to throw them away after two seconds.

I don’t know whether Berend, whom I met recently at a Networking event, is right or not with what he proposes: start creating your life from your thoughts, “to live in your desired situation”. Anyway, I think it’s worth a shot. The thing is about visualising “your world”, the world you wish to live in, doing what you wish to do. This is not easy, and even impossible, if we are stuck in our beliefs and fixations.

We are not aware of it, but our world is the mirror of our thoughts, and to this we have to add our attitude towards life, towards others, towards the earth, the planet, in short, towards everything we touch, do and think.

Wait: Doesn’t the bible also say so? “As you did it to one of these brothers, you did it to me (Matthew 25:31–46). We were educated in the knowledge that our actions have consequences, so we try not to do harm. “Do not do to another what you would not want to be done to you”. This resonates with us, we have learned that our actions have consequences for others. Okay, but our thoughts? Can what we wish for have consequences, too? Many say yes, hence the saying “be careful what you wish for…”.

Well, although I am not yet clear about many things, there is one thing I am clear about: it would be important, no, URGENT, to make clear what we wish for. In short, we should learn to wish well, clearly and in a structured way.

From literature and cinema we know the dilemma: you have three wishes. If it is difficult to ask for three, how difficult will it be then to create the desired life, the desired situation, the desired world, through thoughts, desires?

These days I have taken time to “do nothing” from time to time. Just sit and listen. To my thoughts. To the birds singing. To the sound of every day’s life. Watching. Doing nothing until a desired situation of “my world” emerges clearly.

There is much to create, without effort and without anger. Hereby the mirror: if I am angry at the world because it is not the way I want it to be, that is what “my world” will be like. But if I look and observe, feel and think that I have a beautiful life in front of me, I will also find beautiful people.