Quotes About Thoughts

Although some Western psychologies believe that the dreamer should not control the dream, according to Tibetan teachings this is a wrong view. It is better for the lucid and aware dreamer to control the dream than for the dreamer to be dreamed. The same is true with thoughts: it is better for the thinker to control the thoughts than for the thoughts to control the thinker.

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.

My father also told me that he felt free in that little hole in the ground, much freer than he felt outside, where he was always being chased by the criminals of the regime. That freedom came from inside, from his thoughts, from his soul; and nobody could take that from him.

So many men, so many opinions

So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.

Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening

But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wandered. As I read, I began to call them together again and, as it were, laid a bait for my soul

This good companionship began to root out the habits which bad companionship had formed, and to bring my thoughts back to the desire of eternal things.

A day in heaven,' Adam whispered. What would that be like? To wake up one morning and be normal ? To not bite down and parcel out each second of each day. To not wrestle and negotiate with your obsessions. To not have thoughts that ran you into the ground. To have a quit mind. A quiet mind. Quiet.

Cognitive science teaches us that what we think of as ourselves derives not from a direct experience but from a collage of sensations and images—self-representations, pictures we have of ourselves.

Only those in tune with nature seem to pick up on the energy in wind. All sorts of things get swept off in the breeze — ghosts, pieces of soul, voices unsung, thoughts repressed, love uncherished, and a thousands galore of spiritual ether.

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do.

We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker.

Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful or smart to say, not if it's just spouting fear.

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.

Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.

The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you.

Sometimes it's harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can't pretend you're not at home.

You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden.

Because your voice is the most influential voice in your life! If you want to see where your life is headed, listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth.

the mind is ground zero in spiritual warfare.

There are no good answers to bad questions,

Satan wants to build strongholds in your mind that crowd out everything else, so that there is no room for God's Word to enter and prosper there. He wants his lies to so pervade your thoughts that they become things you meditate upon and accept as truth.

We are all a thought away from becoming a monster.