Observations/Reflections: On Listening to One's Own Thoughts
Status: Dictated but Not Reviewed
Published: 02/16/10
Written: 01/18/2010
Dictated By: Flint McGlaughlin

It may be useful to develop the discipline of carefully observing, moment by moment, my thought process. The dessert fathers practiced the concept of Nepsis. This was a kind of inner watchfulness. I have found that one of the most effective ways to determine motive, is to listen to one's thoughts, then to listen to what one is thinking about one's thoughts, and then to listen to what one is thinking about what one is thinking about what one is thinking about one's thoughts... Once a person is so attuned, they can strive (with more clarity) for ultimate inner simplicity - a single mind, that is thinking with a single voice.

As Kierkegaard said, "Purity of heart is to will one thing".