Identification With Thought

The greater part of most people's thinking is involuntary, automatic, and repetitive. It is no more than a kind of mental static and fulfills no real purpose. Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you. The statement "I think" implies volition. It implies that you have a say in the matter, that there is choice involved on your part. For most people, this is not yet the case. "I think" is just as false as the statement "I digest" or "I circulate my blood." Digestion happens, circulation happens, thinking happens.
The voice in the head has a life of its own. Most people are at he mercy of that voice; they are possessed my thought, by the mind. And since the mind is conditioned by the past, you are then forced to reenact the past again and again. The Eastern term for this is karma. When you are identified with that voice, you don't know this, of course. If you knew it, you would no longer be possessed because you are only truly possessed when you mistake the possessing entity for who you are, that is to say, when you become it.
The degree of identification with the mind differs from person to person. Some people enjoy periods of freedom from it however brief, and the peace, joy, and aliveness they experience in those moments make life worth living. These are also the moments when creativity, love, and compassion arise (A New Earth pg 130.)

Look now, are you identified with your mind and thinking? Or are you free?