
Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being

Thought generates every moment of mental activity, or thinking, that is going on inside your head and inside everyone else’s head. It creates all the forms of your mental activity, such as ideas, concepts, beliefs, impressions, images, and intuitions. The Principle of Thought is also the power that creates everything you feel and all of your emotio
... See moreDicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
As you realize the Principles, you become more accepting of the fact that others will always see and feel life differently. Understanding separate realities can make you curious to learn how others are seeing things, without making them wrong.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
When your thoughts quiet down, and you start to feel better, that’s the feeling that you are looking for. When it is ego, it often feels like excitement and your thinking starts to race with all of the things that you think you should be doing. It’s a high-energy feeling, as opposed to the calm, quiet knowing
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
All that is required to discover this silent mind is a very subtle shift in attention away from the waves and the turbulence, away from the things of the world, and toward the space that is always there — quiet, welcoming, present, waiting.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
We describe this process as waking up to the power of Thought, resting in pure Consciousness, and filling with Mind’s love and wisdom.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
Awareness of Thought frees you of the notion that the external world is connected to, and responsible for, creating your feelings.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
When your thoughts become your identity that is called ego. Ego is a case of mistaken identity. You believe that the illusory thoughts that come and go are your true self. Your true self is the dimension of you that does not come and go.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
To reflect is to simply relax and feel for, or sense deeply, the quiet of your mind.
Dicken Bettinger • Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being
The essence of all insight is a shift in consciousness, a shift in how you see and experience the world. At some point there may be words or ideas that follow this shift, but not necessarily.