Good Thinking!

Benjamin Franklin said, “The foundation of all happiness is thinking rightly.” We spend our whole lives sorting out, what is ‘thinking rightly’? From the time we are infants and as we age, we are constantly evaluating and rationalizing things. For the most part we can only determine what is ‘right’ from our personal experiences and our observations and from the learning and wisdom we have attained. I think the one of the keys to ‘thinking right’ is to feed our minds. Read books, listening to people and searching and pondering upon positive information will help provide us with stimulation to ‘good thinking’. From our births we are in what I call ‘the discovery mode’. It should never stop. Isn’t it a wonderful thing? Isn’t it marvelous to behold little children discovering new things? Even when we are older and maybe tend to consider that we have accomplished our work, the family is raised and we are retired, we are still discovering new things about ourselves, our health, our relationship with others, etc. There is something that attends ‘good thinking’ and although intangible, is a powerful influence upon good thinking which leads to good behavior. A person can feel its effect upon him/herself and even those around them. We are not alone!