Quotes About Thought

Freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought; it is essential to democratic self-governance; and the alternative-- government censorship and control of ideas-- has always led to disaster.

We are thus faced with the following question: Why should an organ like our brain, with the sensorial system attached to it, of necessity consist of an enormous number of atoms, in order that its physically changing state should be in close and intimate correspondence with a highly developed thought?

The real trouble is this: giving expression to thought by the observable medium of words is like the work of the silkworm. In being made into silk, the material achieves its value. But in the light of day it stiffens; it becomes something alien, no longer malleable. True, we can then more easily and freely recall the same thought, but perhaps we can never experience it again in its original freshness.

if we were organisms so sensitive that a single atom, or even a few atoms, could make a perceptible impression on our senses – Heavens, what would life be like! To stress one point: an organism of that kind would most certainly not be capable of developing the kind of orderly thought which, after passing through a long sequence of earlier stages, ultimately results in forming, among many other ideas, the idea of an atom.

The reason for this is, that what we call thought (1) is itself an orderly thing, and (2) can only be applied to material, i.e. to perceptions or experiences, which have a certain degree of orderliness.

Becoming is conscious, being unconscious.

You always know more clearly what you do want when you are faced with what you do not want. But whether you are consciously aware of it or not, all day, every day, you are giving birth to new desires that are being born from the details of the life you are living out on the Leading Edge of thought.

With enough attention to anything, the essence of what you have been giving thought to will eventually become a physical manifestation.

Your current situation is a platform of experience that inspires the next thought and the next. When

In the same way that your Emotional Set-Points can change from feeling basically good or secure to feeling bad or insecure, your set-points can change from not feeling good to feeling good, for your set-points are achieved simply by attention to a subject, and through your practiced thought.

When your current thought is not resonating with what your Inner Being knows about the subject, your negative emotion indicates the disharmony

And then you said (and this is the most important part of all), "I will always feel the power and value of my own personal perspective, for the 'Non-Physical Energy' that creates worlds will flow through my decisions, my intentions and my every thought, for the creation of that which I set into motion from my perspective.

We would define a belief as a thought you continue to think.

you are truly on the Leading Edge of thought, adding unto the Universe with your every thought, word, and deed. You are not inferior Beings here trying to catch up, but instead, Leading-Edge creators with all of the resources of the Universe at your disposal.

But when you make action the cornerstone of your Creative Process without considering the vibrational basis of your Being as you are taking the action, you are working under a distinct handicap, for there simply is not enough power in the action itself to compensate for the competing Energies of your misaligned thought.

The second Law, the Science of Deliberate Creation, says: That which I give thought to and that which I believe or expect—is.

Anything that you have the ability to visualize -- you have the ability to have a physical manifestation of! Abraham -- G 3/10/91

So the only question is: Are you, from your physical format, right now, a Vibrational Match to your creation? Or not? •  And the way you feel, right now, as you focus upon the subject of creation is your answer.

If you believe that you must work hard in order to deserve the money that comes to you, then money cannot come to you unless you do work hard. Financial success, or any other kind of success, does not require hard work. It does require alignment of thought. You simply cannot offer negative thought about things that you desire and then make up for it with action or hard work. When you learn to direct your own thoughts, you will discover the true leverage of Energy alignment.

philosophy is a non-knowledge: thought takes pleasure in measuring its borders

Visualization is not just some spiritual event—it's a basic cognitive process.

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.