Most people don't have thoughts. Thoughts have them.
Steiner's first training for the mind is almost embarrassingly simple:
1. Pick one small object. A pen, a key, a coin.
2. For 5 minutes, think only about that object. What it's made of. How it was made. What each part is for. How it got to your hand.
3. Every time your mind jumps to your phone, your problems or tomorrow, drop it and return to the object.
4. Each thought must follow logically from the last one. No jumping.
You will fail in the first 10 seconds. That's the point. Do it daily for 30 days and watch how much sharper your focus gets everywhere else.
Gurdjieff on Morality
Nobody ever does anything for the sake of evil, or in the pure interests of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way.
Men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. This is the deep sleep in which they live. This is so obvious that it seems strange people have not thought of this before. Because everyone considers his good the only good. -G