Your Connection to Other Human Beings (WD)

Imagine a container the size of a grapefruit, with a lid for the top. Now try to make an educated guess about how many pennies you could store in this container. You might come up with a guess in the neighborhood of three hundred pennies. If I were to ask you, “How many thoughts could your store in this container with the lid tightly sealed to avoid spillover?” you would probably answer, “How could you store thoughts in a container? Thoughts are formless and dimensionless. You cannot store something without physical specifications or boundaries in a container.” 

Now ask yourself, “What is memory?” Eventually you have to conclude that a memory is nothing more than thoughts. So where are all those dimensionless thoughts stored, in order for us to recall them as we do? Many people truly believe that memory is stored in the brain, yet the brain is a container about the size of a grapefruit. It is form. Can you store thoughts, which are formless, in a container which is form? Of course not. So what is memory and where is it if it is not stored in the brain? Hang on and we will speculate about this. 

When we examine the connectors between form and form, we can clearly delineate precisely what makes up these bonds. But once we move to the area of formlessness, we must stop relying on our senses and use intuition to tell us how connections link thoughts to form, and thoughts to thoughts. We know that we cannot store thoughts in a container. Thoughts are some way a part of the invisible world that exists, though hidden from us. 

If memory (thoughts) cannot be stored in our brain, then we have to be open to the possibility that they are outside the brain in some way. The mysterious happenings that seem so inexplicable may somehow come under the heading of thought meeting thoughts. If there are invisible connections between thought and form, then why not between thoughts and thoughts as well? And if thoughts do indeed meet with other thoughts, and we are the source of thoughts, then it seems possible that we create synchronistic situations. 

Consider thought as something that we create all the time. We are the source of this creative process through our connection to the divine and the infinite. With this awareness we can dismiss “coincidence” and believe in the divine intelligence operating in our universe. Of course, once you believe it, you will truly see it working every day. It is here, it works, and you are a part of it. Believe it or not. See it or not. 

— Dr. Wayne W. Dyer