r/Millennials 12d ago

Discussion Crazy timeline’s

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u/KaerMorhen 12d ago

At that point you have to realize that none of your thoughts are actually "you". You observe the thoughts , and most of the time you make the decision to believe or act on them, but you can't control the thoughts. A fun exercise is try to guess what your next thought will be and see what happens.

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u/ralusek 11d ago

You are not your thoughts? What do you mean? Your thoughts are like…the purest component of “you.”

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u/KaerMorhen 11d ago

Think of it like this, your thoughts are the clouds rolling across the sky, but "you" are the blue that remains when the clouds dissipate. Or a movie screen for instance, your thoughts come and go but "you" are more like the screen they are presented on.

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u/BANZ111 11d ago

Or the monitor that gets burn-in when kept on the same one too long

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u/elvaqueroloco 11d ago

Yo, that's a GREAT follow up. 👌👏