Quotes About Thoughts

We create ourselves by how we invest this energy. Memories, thoughts, and feelings are all shaped by how we use it. And it is an energy under our control, to do with as we please; hence, attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings.

There is no way to know whether a thought is new except with reference to some standards, and there is no way to tell whether it is valuable until it passes social evaluation. Therefore, creativity does not happen inside people's heads, but in the interaction between a person's thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic rather than an individual phenomenon.

Over a lifetime of seventy years, and counting sixteen hours of waking time each day, this amounts to about 185 billion bits of information. It is out of this total that everything in our life must come—every thought, memory, feeling, or action. It seems like a huge amount, but in reality it does not go that far.

To be enjoyable, a relationship must become more complex. To become more complex, the partners must discover new potentialities in themselves and in each other. To discover these, they must invest attention in each other—so that they can learn what thoughts and feelings, what dreams reside in their partner's mind. This in itself is a never-ending process, a lifetime's task.

In other words, with nothing to do, the mind is unable to prevent negative thoughts from elbowing their way to center stage.

AT CERTAIN TIMES in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings.

Thoughts have to follow each other, or they get jumbled. While we are thinking about a problem we cannot truly experience either happiness or sadness. We cannot run, sing, and balance the checkbook simultaneously, because each one of these activities exhausts most of our capacity for attention.

the information we allow into consciousness becomes extremely important; it in, in fact, what determines the content and quality of life.

when attention is not focused on a goal, the mind typically begins to be filled with disjointed and depressing thoughts.

What this life will amount to is in part determined by the chemical processes in our body, by the biological interaction among organs, by the tiny electrical currents jumping between the synapses of the brain, and by the organization of information that the culture imposes on our mind. But the actual quality of life—what we do, and how we feel about it—will be determined by our thoughts and emotions; by the interpretations we give to chemical, biological, and social processes.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

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Emil's mouth dried as he heard his own thoughts twisted up and presented back to him, but as Solomon turned away he found that his well of defiance was not yet quite dry. 'My progena will never believe your lies!' he yelled at Solomon's back. The Alpha Legionnaire paused. Then he spoke without turning. 'Why not? They believed yours.

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.

Thoughts are things - choose the good ones!

Their vibe summons circumstances, new friends, money,

The thinking you, as you have sensed, is not a product of your brain; it is channeled by your brain.

What goes around comes around (as in your thoughts coming around into more of those things you don't like).

There's an abrupt disconnect, of course, that comes from leaving behind all things time and space and learning to maneuver in the unseen. The nature of this transition depends entirely on the beliefs of the dearly departed at the time of transition, because their beliefs and thoughts carry over to their new environs. Even there, thoughts become things, only they become things bigger and faster, arranged to match the expectations of new arrivals, often in the twinkling of an eye.

On the occasions fear or worry overcome you, relax! I used to panic whenever negativity coursed through my mind, thinking I was doomed because of this principle of thoughts become things, but I discovered something long ago when I thought I was being fired at PW: while there are indeed times in all our lives when we simply cannot stop our runaway trains of fear or negativity, at all times we are free and able to simultaneously start a new train running.

Actually, no one knows much of anything at all, except: Everything is God, Thoughts become things, and Love is all.

Your thoughts will then "become" the things, circumstances, and events of your life. As pointed out earlier, they don't do this spontaneously—that would completely shatter and nullify the physical laws that otherwise keep things working orderly—but gradually. Slowly. Progressively. Mostly in concert with the physical laws.

To create a physical world that corresponds to all the vibes you possess, life happens.