6Habitual Thought Patterns
“What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.”
Leonard Orr
Writer and philosopher
“It took a long time for my thinking to get this messed up, so it’s going to take a long time for it to get sorted out…”
Everyone nodded in agreement. It seemed to make sense. The phrase was one I'd heard countless times during my recovery from alcoholism, and its speakers had a positive intention: to acknowledge the (sometimes slow) learning and growing process of recovery, in contrast to the “instant fix” of drugs, alcohol and other substances.
But this simple piece of “received wisdom” also reveals a basic confusion people tend to have when it comes to the mind.
People tend to think, speak and act as though their thought forms ...
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