Hay-Ku of the Day (Thinking Makes It So)

Self-centered thinking

Causes such unhappiness --
Bedeviled by thought.

Hell is in your head,

Heaven is in your heart and

Love is everywhere.

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It's really simple:

I can't be unhappy if 

I don't think I am.

I am unhappy

Because I believe I am

Other than I Am.

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Unhappy because

I think myself to be a

Separate person.

Unhappy because

I believe myself to be

Subject to Objects.

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Happy when I Am

Whole but I cannot be that

Thinking otherwise.

Happiness is your

Natural State when You stop

Thinking otherwise.

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"...The unhappiness

That arises in you is

Created by thought..."

[Rich Note: The first two are OOMM Oldies and the last one is an "embedded natural (or unintentional) haiku" from the following transcribed  audio excerpt from "Know That I AM" 

by Eckhart Tolle:

"On, the one hand, thinking loses its capacity to make you unhappy. That's a relief, because the unhappiness that arises in you is created by thought, not by what happens. It's created by thoughts about what happens."]

Additional Conceptual Cross-Correlators:

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." -- Epictetus. 

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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." -- William Shakespeare 

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"The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."--James Allen

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"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he..." -- Solomon (Proverbs 23:7 KJV)

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"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." -- St. Paul (Philippians 4:8 KJV)

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"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." -- Jesus ("Matthew 6:34 KJV)

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"I stated that you are not the thoughts but if you embrace the thoughts as yourself you actually become the thoughts."

"Suffering is only something which has been engendered by a thought or a word -- mind."

"So long as one depends on the mind, the mind will always make us unhappy."

"But for a seeker for reality there is only one meditation -- the rigorous  refusal to harbor thoughts..."

"Refuse all thoughts except one": the thought 'I Am.'"

 -- Sri Nisargadatta