Our Mentality Is Our Reality:
~ Sutra Sayings

“The greatest discovery of any generation
is that human beings can alter their lives
by altering the attitudes of their minds.”
~ Albert Schweitzer

“We do not see things as they are;
we see things as we are.”
~ Talmud

“Our mentality is our reality.
Our “reality” is what we think it to be.”
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
~ George Orwell, 1984

Introduction.

The following verses were inspired by Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s crucial assertion that:

“human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds”
.

They are shared to remind us that our entire space/time “reality” arises only from thought. And that, with vigilant awareness, we can vastly improve our lives by observing, stilling and emptying our minds – our constant thoughts.

Our Mentality Is Our Reality

Our mentality
is our reality.

Change your mentality,
to change your reality.

Learn to observe,
and to still your mind.

Open your mind and see its Source.

Still your mind and Be its Source.

Change your mentality
and Be –

Reality.

Ron’s audio recitation of “Our Mentality Is Our Reality”

Ron’s Explanation and Dedication of “Our Mentality Is Our Reality”

Dear Friends,

My understanding of the foregoing key philosophic concepts began experientially with an unforgettable 1976 out-of-body experience [OOB] in which I observed every thought as a kaleidoscopic form. Thereafter I gradually deduced that our mistaken mental reification of a seemingly separate space/time “reality” subjects us to inevitable karmic problems and sufferings.

Following the OOB, my investigations leading to this realization began with reading published statements of J. Krishnamurti, such as those quoted e.g. in De-condition the Mind.

Now, after over four decades of validating observations and philosophic reflections, I continue to affirm the crucial importance of our mistaken ego-mind self-identification with perceptions and thoughts; that since our problems and sufferings arise mentally, we can gradually transcend them by observing and stilling our minds.

Since thought alone creates our problems and sufferings, thought alone can help us gradually transcend them.

May these writings help us transcend our identification with thought, and thereby to live ever happier and soul fulfilling lives.

And so may it be!

Ron Rattner