Thought quotes
Love as many think is not just an emotion, but a rail that guides our thought and emotion from the barrenness of exclusion to the harvest of inclusive existence. Love is not just a bond but a balloon that buoys you to the borders of boundlessness
We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
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If you had everything you could ever dream of, what would you want? If you do not invest that much thought into your life, that means you are super short-sighted
Most people live on the surface of life. But it is by deep-sea diving in the ocean of thought that you receive the pearls of knowledge
Through every trial, we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes
The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.
For most people life means their job, life means the new house, the car that they bought, their wife, their husband, their children. No! Life is what's throbbing within, not even your body, not your mind, not your thought, not your emotion. What is right now throbbing within you is life. Only because this is ON everything else seems to be meaningful
Boredom occurs when you have neither attention nor involvement with life around you but just lost in your own thoughts
Because you attach so much value to your own thought and your emotion, you cannot see life the way it is
A thought cannot know life. An emotion cannot know life. An ego cannot know life. Only life can know life. If you stop being a bundle of thoughts, opinions and emotions, and just exist here as life - just throbbing pulsating life - knowing life is just natural.
You are either listening to your thought process or to the thought process of someone else. You are never listening to the life process
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness- and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Intelligence is in being able to make people understand what they could not understand. Intelligence is not in confusing the hell out of what people knew perfectly well for ages, That's not intelligence
Completely renouncing all desires arising from material thoughts, one should restrain the senses with the mind from all sides
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the creative power of Spirit
The power of God is within you, so when your mind tells you a thing can't be done, say to that thought, "Get out! It can be done". And it will be, if you make up your mind
Never concentrate on your faults. By doing so you identify yourself with them. You are the one who puts the veil of delusion in front of your wisdom's eyes. Whatsoever you think, that is what you are.
Cheerfulness is very important to health. It is the best antiseptic that you can have — plus the thought that you are all right.
Your thoughts are molding your actions, and your mental convictions from the repetition of those actions is the fire that hardens the thoughts into unyielding habit patterns
Habits are simply thoughts grooved deeply into the brain. The needle of the mind plays those records of habits again and again. Even the chemistry of the body responds, as with addiction. Applying mind and will can change those patterns
If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty
In meditation, try to go beyond thinking. As long as thoughts enter the mind, you are functioning on the conscious level.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.
Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us- to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.
I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.
Your mind is going on with uncontrollable endless thoughts because you are identified with things that you are not. You are identified with too many things and you are trying to stop your mind, it is not going to happen in a million years, it can't happen
If you are causing depression to yourself, you are able to generate substantial amount of intense emotions & thoughts, but in the wrong direction. If you do not have very strong emotions, very intense thoughts about something, you can not get depressed
None of your thoughts are really yours, Thought is something that you generate from implanted information, The way you think right now depends on the kind of family you were born in, parents you had, education, society, social background, religious background. These things are deciding how you think
Once a person raises beyond certain limitations of his consciousness, every thought of his becomes the will of God itself
Thought can come to you as simply gossip- It is harmless. Or as an ideology- now it's little strong, or as a philosophy- it's much stronger, the worst form is when it comes to you as the word of God, you cannot deny even the silliest thought. You have lost even the discriminatory process that you cannot even see this is stupid. It's stupid but it's holy
People are suffering their thoughts immensely, because they do not know how to keep it pleasant, nothing has been done towards it. So, what is a possibility always becomes a problem if you do not explore it in the right perspective.
The most important thing that's happening to you right now is life itself, not the fancy thoughts you have, not the emotions you have, not financial arrangements, nor family or whatever rubbish you have built around you- these are accessories to life, these are all frills. Frills are so much you're missing the skirt, that's the whole problem with you
Let your long-term goal be for the life within you - not for your thoughts, not for your emotions, not for society. If your goals based on the life within you, it will be good for everyone, because everyone is just a life.
If you organize your thoughts and emotions around the fact that you are mortal, you will naturally live joyfully and at full potential
Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises
Call it guilt, fear, anger, or hatred - essentially, it means your thoughts and emotions are working against you
Poisons are not necessarily that which you may consume through food. Poisons can enter you in so many ways: a wrong thought, a wrong emotion, a wrong idea, wrong energy or a wrong impulse can poison your life
The only thing that stands between you and your wellbeing is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than within
when you are reborn, the karma, consisting of all your past thoughts and actions and habits, creates the kind of physical form you will have— not only your appearance but your personality traits
Never allow your mind to entertain thoughts of illness or limitation; you will see your body change for the better.
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East/ West any more than does the light of sun
Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.
your work is not life, your family is not life, your career is not life, your cinema is not life, your thought is not life, your emotion is not life. Life is happening here, everything else is accessories to life.
Yoga makes old people young in terms of energy & rejuvenation; and young people old in terms of thought & wisdom
Consciousness is the source of who we are. Our thoughts, intentions, and actions are a consequence of that.
If you try to use fewer words to say what you need to say, you will become conscious of your speech, and in turn of your thoughts.
All thoughts are lousy. If you perceived something fantastic, there wouldn't be a thought in your head in that moment
For every thought you generate, your chemistry changes. You are a chemical soup & how you stir it is what you become
To explore things presently beyond our perception, the quickest way is to simply be burning intensity - no thought or emotion
Unresolved thoughts, prematurely pushed out of the mind, pile up in an internal landfill - which eventually pokes out of the subconscious and manifests as chronic, nonspecific anxiety
The mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form.
We must uplift our consciousness so that even the most worldly duties are performed with the thought of God.
The thought is the matrix of all creation; thought created everything. If you hold on to that truth with an indomitable will, you can materialize any thought.
The 'thought' is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy. 'Thought' itself is the finest vibratory energy, the speediest power among all powers.
We must withdraw our thoughts from sensations and be silent within. Silencing the thoughts means tuning them into God. That is when true prayer begins.
Everyone should learn to analyze himself dispassionately. Write down your thoughts and aspirations daily. Find out what you are — not what you imagine you are
Dissociate yourself from your experiences. Looking upon them as though they were happening to another person is the best way.
Everything that has happened throughout the ages is recorded in the ether. The vibrations of evil that mankind leaves in the ether upset the normal harmonious balance of the earth.
Habits of thought are mental magnets that draw to you certain things, people, and conditions. Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it.
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
Every spiritual thought you think will be your eternal friend. And every evil inclination you acquire will be your enemy for a long, long time; it will pursue you until you slay it
To develop one's powers of concentration, one should do everything with deep attention. Most people perform activities absentmindedly. There is a great gulf between their actions and their thoughts
Intuition is the bridge between the soul and the ego's thoughts and sensations. If one can for a sufficient length of time remain unidentified with thoughts and sensations, and without being unconscious, he will know through the development of intuition the nature of the soul.
By self-analysis and constant watching of all your actions and thoughts and moods, you will gradually learn your true nature and how to express it flawlessly.
The thoughts that predominate at the time of death can bring you either salvation — if your supreme desire is for God — or rebirth. If you are filled with worldly desires, those thoughts impinge themselves on the subtle body and bring the soul back into another earthly incarnation
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
Will power is easy to develop. Try first for small accomplishments. Gradually you will get rid of tendencies you thought you could not overcome
I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?