In his heart so he is. So often, I think we fail to realize the power of thought. We stumble around in our mind and have thoughts of others and ourselves and situations that are negative and unfair. I can't tell you how many times I have found myself making assumptions about people or situations that are far from true. I even find myself being so judgemental at times that my perception warps the reality of the situation.
In that vein, I think that Paul summed it up best when he said in 2 Corinthians 10:5 to "take every thought captive to obey Christ." We have the power to control our thoughts. We should be thinking good thoughts, even in bad situations. That doesn't mean that we should be so naive as to say that we won't or shouldn't have bad feelings, but to make situations worse by thinking negatively only worsens the situation. When a negative thought comes around, we can do as Paul said in Philippians 4:8 to think about "whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things."
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Our thoughts come from a (or The) Source, while our feelings come from an Object or our immediate environment, now and here. It is our imperative to keep the two (source and object, thinking and feeling, knowing and sensing) matched. We may want to adapt our thoughts to our feelings when we cannot adapt our feelings to our thoughts. However, we do have great philosophies and religion to still keep trying and succeeding in thinking positive thoughts. We need culture to support us, for those thoughts, or perhaps rather morals and ethics, are at the highest level of 'functional structure' mankind ever reached, and I agree that was in AD 0. That structure needs to be in our sensed environment ànd in our knowing organism. It is the same, and the match means we can keep track and do not slide away in pessimistic realism nor naive idealism.
http://www.pmm.nl/philo/philo.htm#ConstructiveRecollection
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