Quotes About Thoughts

What we are on the inside, what we continually think about, eventually shows in our words, actions, and even on our countenances.

What?" he demanded testily. Trammell raised his eyebrows. "I didn't say anything." "You're thinking something, though. You've got that shit-eating smirk on your face." "Why would anyone smirk while they eat shit?" Trammell asked rhetorically.

You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.

Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.

My memory follows rules that my conscious being cannot explain, though they may have something to do with my subconscious being.

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself.

If you think of harming someone, this is the same as actually doing it, in terms of the spiritual world, since the spiritual world is vibrational, which includes thinking.

Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.