Thoughts on thinking...

Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts.
- Benjamin Disralei

I recently had a day where my poor brain couldn't process information, and the attempts I was making were physically painful. As I wandered through the office supply store, I said in frustration, "I JUST CAN'T THINK". I then looked down and saw a book on how to think, and found the circumstances irresistable. I bought it.

I found Mr. Disraeli on top of the first page of the first chapter, and my mind wandered off on what he had to say and I have gone no further in the book.

It is true that thoughts, while intangible, do send something out into the world that create a tangible result. This is not where I got lost. I began to wonder why it is that it is so difficult at times to rise above other people's thoughts about us.The first and obvious answer, is that somehow those thoughts somehow have become our own and that is how they affect us.

What troubles me more, is this: how do you keep other people's thoughts out of your head?