Quotes About Thoughts

The challenge is that often when we think about success or think about our goals, we think it'll be good, and there will also be something which is bad. Therefore we have an inner conflict. If we can't iron out that conflict, we exhaust ourselves fighting against part of us that wants to do this, and part of us that doesn't want to do it. We're pushed and pulled in all kinds of directions by our own internal programs, many of which are unconscious to us.

The central shift is from a focus on what you think and feel to how do you relate to what you think and feel. Specifically, the new emphasis is on learning to step back from what you are thinking, notice it, and open up to what you are experiencing. These steps keep us from doing the damage to ourselves that efforts to avoid or control our thoughts or feelings inflict, allowing us to focus our energies on taking the positive actions that can alleviate our suffering.

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.

Slice of life comedy is something which I enjoy more. These moments make you smile when you think about them. And these moments work for a film as well, rather than slapstick comedy.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

Bond doesn't have an inner life. There would be moments when I'd think, 'We need to gather our thoughts here and have a breather,' where in another novel you'd slow the pace, have some description and see what Bond feels about this. But Bond doesn't reflect. All you can do is move on to the next bomb or shark or car.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

I can be fine and not smile.

People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.

I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.

Part of the power of the ego flows from its command of one's rational faculties.)

I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.

Luciferians have the potential to be abundantly more balanced and stronger in character than Christians; when you are responsible for your actions and can't bend a knee or go to church on Sunday to hide your bad behaviors in life, a sense of self-discipline will allow better thoughts, words and actions the first time!  Responsibility begins and ends with the individual alone.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.

Para mim, nenhum prazer tem gosto sem comunicação. Não me acorre um único pensamento espirituoso sem que me sinta agastado de tê-Io produzido sozinho, não tendo a quem o oferecer.

If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream--a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows--is essentially poetry.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.