strings: Is there a division between the thinker and the thought? So long as they are separate, divided, our effort is wasted; we are pursuing a false process which is destructive and which \ is the deteriorating factor. We think the thinker is separate from his thought. When I find that I am greedy, possessive, brutal, I think I should not be all this. The thinker then tries to alter his thoughts and therefore effort  is made to 'become' ; in that process of effort he pursues the false illusion that there are two separate processes, whereas there is only one process. I think therein -lies the fundamental factor of deterioration.