| BkI:2.II.1 | There is a place in the universe from which all thought emanates. Thought—not to be confused with the act of thinking—is an effect of divine origin. Anyone who observes thought can know this in a simple, clear way. Thought is a means, never an end. It cannot be an end because thought is not of its own origin. Thought doesn't create itself. Clearly there is something that precedes thought. That “something” is precisely what we are talking about. Is it a place? Is it just one place? Or is there a place for each person? Why do you each have different thoughts? Is each person an independent source? Are you source in yourself? An individual source that creates its own thoughts—the thoughts you think you think—in itself and by itself? On what basis did you conceive them? If each were a closed system in itself that creates its own thinking unattached to other closed systems of thought, what holds these separate systems together? Where does each individual system get the vital energy that is the source of thought? Are each of you an independent volcano with an autonomous nucleus from which you expand outward? |