Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind… — Ernest Wood Copy Share Image
I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things. — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“There was a single thought in my head: Keep thinking. Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive, and thinking… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material. — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“As in other exercises my father taught me, the way to begin is to sit up straight, breathe normally, and gradually allow… — Yongey Mingyur Copy Share Image
The thought must have its own center of gravity; it cannot just be either here or there. We must find this center… — Jeanne de Salzmann Copy Share Image
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you've never allowed yourself to… — Elizabeth Lomeli Copy Share Image
“conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“As a result of this averaging the collective consciousness holds certain stable beliefs regarding different things. And it is this collective belief… — Grigori Grabovoi Copy Share Image
“I think we would all agree that people should not be jailed for thoughts. But when, if ever, does a thought cross… — Gil Valle Copy Share Image
“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.” — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs. — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
“We all need a space to just let things be, a place to remember who we are and what is important to… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself,… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“We are not walking in the Word if our thoughts are opposite of what it says. We are not walking in the… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“I shake off the thought, knowing I can’t go forward tonight thinking things like that. Think with the big head, man! Think… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“And it is from inner space, the unconditioned consciousness itself, that true happiness, the joy of Being, emanates.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image