LIFE AND THE LAW - THOUGHTS ARE THINGS

THOUGHTS AS "THINGS":

Our spiritual world is viewed by us from a physical perspective. Because of that perspective, things are not always as they appear to us. We know things mainly by our senses, and these are misleading.

Our senses would tell us that because a building appears solid, it is more real than a thought. Yet every building started only as a thought, as an idea, and somehow that idea had the ability to organize matter into the form of the finished building. Now which is more real, the idea or the product? Can the effect be more real than the cause? Shouldn't we consider the Cause to be at least as real? This is why Holmes says "Thoughts are Things."

Furthermore, buildings are not solid at all, as any quantum physicist will tell you. Each atom is nearly all empty space, with interlinking electric and fields holding the nuclei together at the proper distance, while they vibrate madly depending on the temperature at the moment.

The cause, or the idea, and the effect, or the material result, are actually two sides of the very same coin. One is the form, the other is the substance. Our thoughts and ideas create an invisible form which, with effort, can be translated into a physical presence through manipulation of matter and energy, which as we know, are just different forms of the same thing.

But of course not all thoughts become things. That is why we tend to think of thoughts as unreal- it is because so many of our thoughts are idle, and do not produce any results in our lives. Idle thoughts are not wrong, they are a reality of life, so long as we do not expect any result from them.

When thoughts are casual or contradictory, they create only randomness, which is perhaps why we experience so much of it in our lives!