Quotes About Thoughts

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

The tools of the mind can be wrongly used, but the mind possesses no wrong tools.

Thoughts are apples on the tree, Not meant for anyone in particular, But they end up belonging To the one who takes them.

When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view.

Sometimes the thoughts and feelings I had didn't really agree with each other, so I decided I must be lots of different people inside my brain.

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

My?li g?upie. My?li t?skne.

Brain Salad Surgery.

He had been thinking too of goodies and baddies. If you thought bad things – dreams of cruelty and lust – that didn't make you bad. But if your head was full of civilised thoughts and you spent all day as a torturer … It came down to the fact that you were judged by your actions in society, not by the inside of your head.

muttered. Then:

His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life.

Whirly bits of confused thought stormed my mind.

La mente dell'uomo è contorta e in genere lo spinge a credere sempre alla peggiore delle ipotesi

The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

El hombre piensa muchas cosas. Piensa que es Uno. Generalmente es varios. Hasta que sea Uno, no podrá tener una idea clara de lo que él es.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Emotionalist: A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

Pensó que al menos tenían un plan. Aunque todo el mundo tenía uno. Hasta que le caía la primera hostia.

Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.

The purpose of life is to be restored back to Love, moment to moment. To fulfill this purpose, the individual must acknowledge that he is 100 percent responsible for creating his life the way it is. He must come to see that it is his thoughts that create his life the way it is moment to moment.The problems are not people, places, and situations but rather the thoughts of them. He must come to appreciate that there is no such thing as "out there.

Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.