The nautilus, the seed unfurling, a meditative shape.

That’s one direction the spiral can go.

The other is straight down to hell.

One bad thought opens the door to a flood of other bad ones.

A single thing becomes a million things.

But the single thing can also lead to nothing.

A spiral is a path.

One thought is a point on that path.

But a point can just be point rather than part of a path.

That’s the trick.

To let one bad thought be that, by itself, without letting it form a path, and then to let that thought pass into nothingness.