Quotes About Thought

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

Thought is the seed of action.

What is the hardest thing in the world To think.

There is something in the universe that responds to brave, intrepid thought. The Power that holds and that moves the stars in their courses, fights for the brave and the upright. Courage has power and magic in it.

THE SILENT, SUBTLE BUILDING FORCES OF MIND AND SPIRIT

Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.

The body is the temple; the jiva is God (Siva). If one worships him with the 'I am He' thought, one will gain release.

The whole universe is only mental. (p. 351)

The body which is matter says not 'I'. Eternal Awareness rises not nor sets. Betwixt the two, bound by the body, rises the thought of 'I'. This is the knot of matter and Awareness. This is bondage, jiva, subtle body, ego. This is samsara, this is the mind.

Ramana Maharshi's advice on depression) This depression must be traced to its origin. The origin is the wrong identification of the body with the Self. The disease is not of the Self. It is of the body. But the body does not come and tell you that it is possessed by the disease. It is you who say so. Why? Because you have wrongly identified yourself with the body. The body itself is a thought. Be as you really are. There is no reason to be depressed. (p. 360)

Cuando el mundo desaparece, es decir, cuando no hay pensamiento, la mente experimenta la felicidad, y cuando el mundo aparece, se hunde en la desdicha.

Mind shouts, while heart whispers!

There was a time when Men functioned through the mind and Women from their heart, now its Men who feel more and women think more...

To receive the compliments of being a good writer really annoys me, as this has been my perception that a writer as such has no value, it is the readers who invest their thought process, give life to dead words, coupled with their own imagination, thus syncing the content to their tastes and sensibilities, that matter."

Very seldom do you Live, mostly it's the Mind that lives through YOU!

We think intelligently yet act foolishly!

I'm saying that Nexus may defy human understanding because it is not the product of normal human thought,"Holtzman said. "It is the product of posthuman thought.

I don't care much for this homogenised religion, and I told him so. This notion that you mustn't think your way to faith is obviously not far from the intolerance that leads to burning books.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

They don't need the facts because they already know the truth—their common sense has spared them the effort of investigation or thought.

Our perception of reality is basically abstraction

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better. —GEORGE ORWELL, "POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE," 1946