While thought can be a great tool, one can be controlled by ones thoughts rather than the reverse; that is, a slave to one's past experiences and how that projects into the future like a railway track.
To be endlessly controlled by the past, and the past's plans for the future, is to die without having really lived.
How to calm the noise in your mind.
With Eckhart Tolle ...
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