Quotes About Thoughts

My first thought is the feeling itself. The second thought is, "God, please help me understand this from Your perspective.

Somos peligrosos cuando no somos conscientes de nuestra responsabilidad hacia cómo nos comportamos, pensamos y sentimos.

The use of the common expression "have to", as in "There are some things you have to do, whether you like it or not," illustrates how personal responsibility for our actions can be obscured in speech. The phrase "makes one feel", as in "You make me feel guilty," is another example of how language facilitates denial of personal responsibility for own feelings and thoughts.

When he was troubled, he consulted no one. He knew by the light of faith that God was present, and he contented himself with directing all his actions to Him. He did everything with the intent to please God, and did not worry about consequences. "Useless thoughts spoil everything," he said. All trouble began there. We ought to let go of such thoughts as soon as we are aware of them.

What you are telling me is nothing new. You are not the only one who has trouble with wandering thoughts. Our minds are extremely unfocussed. But our will is the master of all our faculties, and it is able to rein them in and carry them to God, which is their final goal.

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

The potted plant could have been knocked over intentionally or accidentally, or maybe one of the animals that lived here broke it somehow. I thought of the impossibilities and improbabilities. Jack would say that elves had broken it when they came to take me back to the wood.

Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages. ( "Elf" the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )

mind," he said. "I'll just get it then.

The most fertile idea of the Stoics, in my view, is their analysis of emotions as containing evaluative thoughts about what is most important for one's well-being. That view I find basically correct, though in need of a lot of further work. Their normative analysis of the emotions seems wrong to me, namely that we should get rid of them all, but they are pretty on target in their critique of anger.

With our thoughts, we make the world. —Buddha

I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

Oh shit, my media!...No, wait, I had access to some of it.

Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal?

va savoir ce qu'il se passe dans la tête d'un bot", a répondu Wilken avec un regard en coin dans ma direction. J'ai gardé les yeux rivés devant moi.

Just a heads-up, when a murderbot stands there looking to the left of your head to avoid eye contact, it's probably not thinking about killing you, it's probably frantically trying to come up with a reply to whatever you just said to it.

I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

MEMORY is an odd thing. I can always remember to perfection a mass of unimportant details.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

Instead we experience reactive commentaries on thoughts and feelings. The ability to meet with stillness all that appears and disappears in awareness will gradually (very gradually) replace this deeply ingrained pattern of meeting experiences with reactive commentary.

For such thoughts are accustomed to occur to men's minds when God wants to punish sins; they regard God's Word and absolute truth as something quite absurd.

In his ministry to the sick Luther recommended physicians, barbers, and apothecaries. Resort to medicine is desirable, he said, and it is well that physicians and nurses do what they can. However, Luther went beyond most of these physicians in pointing to the mental and emotional origin of some physical ailments. "Our physical health depends in large measure on the thoughts of our minds. This is in accord with the saying, 'Good cheer is half the battle.'"{18}

Hence one should follow the advice of the hermit to whom a youth complained that he rather often experienced imaginations concerned with lusts and other sins and to whom the old man replied: "You cannot prevent the birds from flying over your head. But let them only fly and do not let them build nests in the hair of your head. Let them be thoughts and remain such; but do not let them become conclusions."32