Quotes About Thoughts

Yours, O Lord, is the day, Yours also is the night; cover our sins with Your mercy as You cover the earth with darkness; and grant that the Son of Righteousness may always shine in our hearts, to chase away the darkness of all evil thoughts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. —ANONYMOUS

The journals may give you an opportunity to express your feelings without inviting further tables.

anger attracts angry thoughts.

your head. Sally Kempton

When meditating one dwells in the empty, silent no-thing-ness from which mental phenomena arise; when thoughts and images appear one lets them go.

He was inefficient in the old sense of the word; not incapable, but unwilling to be seduced by work--unwilling to be singleminded. Those things that needed to be done were constantly put off for those things that needed to be thought about. And unfinished projects did not pester him to be completed, but represented, in themselves, thoughts he had not finished thinking....

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation.

You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don't haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" asked "That if Franz Kafka were here his head would explode?" "Actually, yeah.

Sixteen different objections rose up in my mind at once and somehow they all canceled each other out. Maybe if there had been an odd number. . .

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

When there are no words, know that the silences are carrying the thoughts and prayers of all who love you.

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

Mind to matter is not an abstract metaphysical proposition. It is a physical fact, as material as the bodies we live in. Thought by thought, moment by moment, our minds are creating the energy fields in which our cells reproduce. Positive thoughts provide our cells with an energy culture in which they thrive.

As we realize our ability to choose that world, we begin to select thoughts, feelings, experiences, and beliefs that facilitate its creation.

Focus is when attention is centered in the meditative state. Then mind wandering begins. We become aware that the mind is wandering, then shift ourselves back into focus. Seeing meditation as this four-part cycle, rather than as a single ideal state, gives us a more realistic picture of what to expect in our meditation sessions.

Eternal Boredom Of The Strifeless Mind

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Of course, he was absolutely correct, it was no concern of mine. So naturally I thought about it--excessively.

He was burbling on like a talkative brook, no doubt reciting from a lesson he had been taught in seminary—"Comforting Thoughts for the Newly Bereaved,

You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.