Quotes About Rumination

Human consciousness is always at risk of getting stuck, sending the mind around and around in loops of rumination; mushroom chemicals like psilocybin can nudge us out of those grooves, loosening stuck brains and making possible fresh patterns of thought.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

no le parece que tiene uno suficientes quebraderos de cabeza con lo que piensa de verdad para preocuparse encima de lo que habría podido pensar si lo hubiera pensado?

non cresce niente sul magniloquio, sul parviloquio o sul soliloquio. Su che cosa cresce qualcosa? Sul riflettiloquio.

But these fancies were not marked enough not not to be thrown off, and it is only in the light, or the gloom, I should rather say, of other and subsequent matters that they now come back to me.

He quotes an expert on anxiety who suggests we should think of the two disorders as "fraternal twins": "Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss." Both reflect a mind mired in rumination, one dwelling on the past, the other worrying about the future. What mainly distinguishes the two disorders is their tense.

Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss." Both reflect a mind mired in rumination, one dwelling on the past, the other worrying about the future. What mainly distinguishes the two disorders is their tense.

there is nothing we can do longer than think, no activity to which we can devote ourselves more regularly nor more easily:

His thoughts drifted randomly, as thoughts will do.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

Even when we're sitting still, with no external stimuli, an endless internal dialogue may be going on in our head. we're constantly consuming our thoughts. Cows, goats, and buffalo chew their food, swallow it, then regurgitate and rechew it multiple times. We may not be cows or buffalo, but we ruminate just the same on our thoughts - unfortunately, primarily negative thoughts. We eat them, and then we bring them up to chew again and again, like a cow chewing its cud.

There are animals that are ruminants, like water buffalo and cows. After chewing and swallowing, they bring up the food again and they chew and swallow it again. There are people who continue to consume the suffering of the past in that way. They spend their time during the day ruminating over their own suffering from the past.

often thought the same thing, but

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn't say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

contemplate

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

Good thought." "Brineesha said she'd

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do

could see that fatty mind grinding and figuring.

my train of thought. "Look

Food for thought gives some folks indigestion.

Well, now that you mention it…

You know when things get inside you and you can't stop going round and round the same piece of misery.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.