“This incident well illustrates that worship, as understood by Zen masters, is a pure act of thanksgiving, or the opening of the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Even a thought that says I don’t want something? If you don’t want it, why think about it? Don’t give it a… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Buddhists say that thoughts are like drops of water on the brain; when you reinforce the same thought, it will etch a… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We do not (on Holmes’s reasoning) permit the free expression of ideas because some individual may have the right one. No individual… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“The awareness that we stand in the presence of the Living God is one of the most important realizations we can install… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and… — V. Vee Copy Share Image
The priceless heritage of the free and independent interchange of thought is not to be kept without ceaseless vigilance. Only by guarding… — 1st Viscount Southwood Julius Elias Copy Share Image
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“All thoughts—good thoughts, bad thoughts, lovely thoughts, evil thoughts—occur within something. All thoughts arise and disappear into a vast space. If you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if my whole life will pass by this way: me waiting in the shadows, waiting for something to happen.… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“He felt disgruntled and obscurely let down at having paid good money to discover that the vision that had so irradiated his… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
“Thought is a force, even as electricity or gravitation. The human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of God. I… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Does he know I’m here, alive, that I’m thinking about him? I have to believe so. In reduced circumstances you have to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Most of us probably fall several times a day into a fit somewhat like this: The eyes are fixed on vacancy, the… — William James Copy Share Image
“I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves. But this I was her, something, someone whose… — Dezső Kosztolányi Copy Share Image
An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
When you change yourself, the world starts changing with you. No matter what led us to the place we are at even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“to Hegel, history was like a running river. Every tiny movement in the water at a given spot in the river is… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“When finally substantiated by scientific means, such a view will allow an individual to see his place in the world with greater… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely… — Ben Foster Copy Share Image
Stop all physical activity and sit naturally at ease. Remain silent and let sound be like an echo. Do not think about… — Tilopa Copy Share Image
“Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe Pools… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“In books we have the compendium of all human experience. We may use them or neglect them as we will, but if… — Sir Basil Blackwell Copy Share Image
“In living things, nature springs an ontological surprise in which the world-accident of terrestrial conditions brings to light an entirely new possibility… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
“A body seems a solitary thing until each cell inside it gains its own voice, and when all shriek in terror at… — Josin L. McQuein Copy Share Image
You came here with something to do. You are part of a universal consciousness, and there are no accidents in it. In… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“When I feel clumsy or lost, I remind myself that nature, including me, was created by a a far wiser mind than… — Jeffrey R. Anderson Copy Share Image
If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image