The Snowglobe of Life
Watching the snowflakes fall.
Think of reality as a boundless sky of consciousness. Picture a snowglobe, the kind you shake to watch the snowflakes swirl. Likewise, in this world all around us are thoughts, which hover and tumble like snowflakes, flitting this way and that. They’re the thoughts of thousands upon thousands of years of human history — opinions and stories that ebb and flow with the capricious tides of wind and time. Idle gossip, TV shows, advertisements, political rhetoric, and a billion trillion other thoughts, good or bad, can drift in and out of the human mind.
You are not subject to any of these thoughts, no matter how time-honored. You can’t be possessed by any assumptions whatsoever. The only hold a thought has on you is what you give it.
You can either grab on to a snowflake (thought), or let it fall by the wayside.
“Upon this stage of existence goes on the dance of mortal mind. Mortal thoughts chase one another like snowflakes, and drift to the ground.” — Mary Baker Eddy (Science and Health, p. 250)
Earth not flat. We checked.
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