The key to wise thought is to sense the energy state behind the thought.  If we pay attention, we will notice that certain thoughts are produced by fear and the small sense of self.  With them will be clinging, rigidity, unworthiness, defensiveness, aggression, or anxiety.  We can sense their effect on the heart and the body.  When we notice this suffering we can relax, breathe, loosen the identification.  With this awareness the mind will become more open and malleable,  with this pause we return to our true inner nature.  Now we can think, imagine, and plan, but from a state of ease and benevolence.  It's that simple. 
                                                                                                        ---Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart

Dead Bodies

I hate people who abuse power, who flaunt authority to hinder progress. Those ugly people who work for harm or belittlement, who take joy in others failures. I despise those who are dishonest for gain or plan the downfall of others. And tonight more than ever I hate dead bodies and those who cause them. Halloween in Saskatchewan brought two murders. A dead body with a grieving family and friends. I happen to be on a clinical contract in the same place as one of them. A few hundred yards away a drunken something caused knives to rip and gash. A dead body. A spirit, a friend, a son, a lover, a young man; gone because all of us forget what really matters. To live and love. To be kind and gentle and to watch for each others dignity and to give when we do not want to. I rode my bike past the scene. The crisp wind sent a shiver down my back. I couldn't stop the tears. Two lives; one dead and one in jail. What a fucking waste. TJS