

If You are Your Thoughts, Then Who’s Listening?

January 16th, 2008 by Ryan



post youarenotyourthoughts If You are Your Thoughts, Then Whos Listening?The other night I was drifting into sleep when I had one of the greatest realizations in my entire life so far.  My consciousness was dosing off and I was about to fall asleep at any moment. 
























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19 Responses to “If You are Your Thoughts, Then Who’s Listening?”

  1. Sue Ann EdwardsNo Gravatar Says:

    It’s a trip, discovering we’re not our stories but the Reader of our stories.



    It’s been called “The Watcher on the Threshold”. And is what Sovereignty and Self Mastery are all about.

    What a way to begin a new year! Welcome to the realm of self-more-ness, instead of self-less-ness!

  2. EvanNo Gravatar Says:

    But what is this unthinking self?

    Why should thinking be devalued compared to watching?

    And wouldn’t this require analysis?

  3. BartNo Gravatar Says:

    Isn’t that a mindblow – your thoughts are talking to someone, and that someone is you, and the thoughts are being generated by someone who is not you.

    I know, it does sound convoluted and strange, but it’s pretty wild when you obtain the Aha! moment with it.

    Another book to check out is Ekhart Tolle’s book, The power of Now. It was the first place I heard about this idea.

    However, I’m not totally sure of what to do, what to build off from this realization. Has any one been practicing this for a while, and how has it changed their lives?

  4. Alex KayNo Gravatar Says:

    Really powerfull post. Gave me some food for thought, thank you.

  5. bigsendNo Gravatar Says:

    Wow!! Fantastic post Ryan!

    Resonates deeply.

    Yeah, it is rather weird how the ego clings to you. But then again, all your body parts “cling” to you too, its part of nature.

    It occurred to me. The ego is like an amazing tool which keeps us alive in hunter-gather situations. I.e., thinking logically. It makes us do crazy things too: either impregnate a woman, or to kill a competitor, to steal, etc etc. In a weird way, its like an organ of the body, and like any body part it is susceptible to disease. Perhaps once we are accustomed to life, we can transcend the ego and thus “remove it” like removing a cancer (ooo kind of a harsh example, but there you go!)

    Thanks for writing this!

  6. Tim Organic LesterNo Gravatar Says:

    Some good thoughts for the new year.
    Tim Lester

  7. RyanNo Gravatar Says:

    Sue Ann, the day before I posted this, I was wondering what you’ve been up to and checked your blog…I guess I manifested your comment :) Thanks, Yeah self-more-ness is a good way of putting it, more of me to shine through to others.

    Evan, I’m using my mind the best I can to describe an experience of awareness. If you’d like to read up more about the value of presence, I’d recommend Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now as well, its quite a paradigm shifter.

    Bart, yah it was quite the aha moment. Now I’ve been slowly practicing presence more and more throughout my day and taking small seconds to appreciate my surroundings.

    Alex, glad to hear it.

    Bigsend, wow that’s a great way of looking at it. Perhaps the question becomes, once you are aware of the ego, you can truly transcend it by accepting it and appreciating its purpose.

    Tim, great to hear.

    Cheers guys.

  8. ash willsNo Gravatar Says:

    If want something to build upon this new ‘understanding’ then check out the works of Dr. David R. Hawkins.

    Highest Possible Recommendation!!!

  9. RyanNo Gravatar Says:

    Thanks ash, I actually have Power vs Force in the mail as we speak.

  10. TupladNo Gravatar Says:

    Ryan, you’ve got like the most AMAZING posts lately :) They are EASY and I can actually tell this to other people, you know ? I can explain this stuff to my little brother. Good stuff!

  11. JaredNo Gravatar Says:

    Excellent Ideas here. Our mind is constantly trying to sensemake our surroundings and the occurances around us. It is like a super computer running through the various permutations of logic codes. When we choose the ideas / codes to sensemake e.g. that guy is rich cos he is lucky, we become defined by those ideas.

    To develop oneself, we have to learn to not only to control our minds but also to forgive ourselves when such “stray” thoughts occur.

  12. RyanNo Gravatar Says:

    Thanks Tuplad! Good to hear you can use the info to help the younger guys. Jared, yes one skill that I have embraced is to take it easy on myself. When one is aware of what they want to improve, they can be too hard on themselves. Instead, having patience with one’s self means knowing that in time you will become better and where ever one is, is ok.

  13. FentonNo Gravatar Says:

    Thoughts are just recycle-able elements that circulating the world. It lands on you when something triggers it, which usually in the form of experiences and thinking process. The thoughts that landed on us is actually from the process of unconscious reaction (or by the ego).

    Yet everything comes deeply from conditioned pattern that one has undergone. Whether towards to the positive (yang) or negative (yin) depends how the one is programmed.

    Fenton’s last blog post..I Win A WiFi Photo Frame

  14. ArielNo Gravatar Says:

    Excellent article, Ryan!

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    I’ve heard somewhere that our consciousness is like an onion. It consists of layer after layer. We can go deeper and deeper peeling each layer until finally after the last layer is gone we will find our true self. But what i found fascinating is after the last layer is gone, there is actually nothing left. in the middle there is NOthing. But it’s kinda liberating because from nothing that we can create.

  16. JohannesNo Gravatar Says:

    I have been thinking about this a lot recently but I just couldn’t seem to understand…
    all I needed was this article, great work!

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  18. feliNo Gravatar Says:

    A great book to better understand and learn to apply it in your life(how to distinguish which voice is which and use them) is The still small voice by Robert Wall Crary.
    Thank you very much for this site, helps feed my awareness like you wouldn’t believe it. Wow, we just will never even be close to finish learning.

  19. DiffuseNo Gravatar Says:

    I was really happy to find this. You remind me of myself, in all the introspection and description of feelings and revelations. This is not a jugglery of words, without a rigid conclusion. This is SOMEthing. This truely tries to explain the feel of the revelation. :D

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