Quotes About Thoughts

thoughts aren't the problem. Problems only develop when thoughts no longer arise from or refer to actual experience. That's when thoughts start ossifying into their own bureaucratic institutions, becoming assumptions and dogma.

The results we are looking for, unfortunately, often include stopping our thoughts altogether, or destroying unwanted emotions. One simple reason meditation is difficult to sustain is that the principal benefits of meditation are not short-term, and it is generally hard to convince ourselves to engage in anything that has mostly long-term effects. Our

We only have one wireless connection with the real Internet, and that's our mind. There isn't a single moment in our lives when our mind is not functioning as the basis of all our interactions—not even one. So it makes sense to train ourselves in the skilful operation of this basic interface. This is what meditation is for.

She made a gesture of impatience. 'Do you never think of the future?' 'Not in your presence,' laughed Nick. 'I think of you—you—and only you. Didn't you know?

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.

As I entered a home to make a pastoral visit, the person I came to see was sitting at a window embroidering a piece of cloth held taut on an oval hoop. She said, "Pastor, while waiting for you to come I realized what's wrong with me—I don't have a frame. My feelings, my thoughts, my activities—everything is loose and sloppy. There is no border to my life. I never know where I am. I need a frame for my life like this one I have for my embroidery.

The longer we suffer, the more we dwell on suffering – eventually suffering and the thought of suffering eclipse each other entirely…

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Strange how deeply they reside and how one memory pulls out the next like links in a chain, until at times you find that even the subtlest thoughts you had decades ago are sill hidden somewhere inside of you.

Sometimes I have some stuff in my head, man, you wouldn't believe. But I can go to the studio and talk about it. That's my way of releasing.

Relief is not a word that ever enters my mind, about anything.

Technology steers what 2 billion people are thinking and believing every day. It's possibly the largest source of influence over 2 billion people's thoughts that has ever been created. Religions and governments don't have that much influence over people's daily thoughts.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

I sleep around 8 hours, but I tend to wake up several times a night with constant dreams, thoughts, and ideas related to Rent the Runway.

Representation is actually when the character doesn't have lines, but the camera is lingering on them in their thoughts after something happened, and then we get to see them walk to their car. You really need to follow a character in order to understand what they're going through.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

As a footballer, it can be enjoyable to do a proper interview where you trust the journalist to reproduce your thoughts.

I don't think or write from big ideals.

I guess I'm interested in politics - I'm interested in ideas and ideology.

I believe in conscious creation, that my thoughts create my reality. But, at the same time, I don't believe that ignoring something will make it disappear.

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

Ideas control the world.