“We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of dreams, desires,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“To thinking, cogitation, I oppose fullness, embodiedness, the sensation of being – not a consciousness of yourself as a kind of ghostly… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“I understand the mechanism of my own thinking. I know precisely how I know, and my understanding is recursive. I understand the… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Accept this reality: It is your mind’s job to think—24/7. And it’s not going to stop just because you sit down for… — Victor Davich Copy Share Image
“The present still holds on to the immediate past without positing it as an object, and since the immediate past similarly holds… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“What meaning our lives may seem to have is the work of a relatively well-constituted emotional system. As consciousness gives us the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The actuality of Nature is like the beauty of Nature. We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“In the human life time is but an instant, and the substance of it a flux, and the perception dull, and the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Thought is the first level of creation. Next comes the word. Everything you say is a thought expressed. It is creative and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
When you feel expansion of your consciousness, that is the most ecstatic experience possible, because suddenly you are the whole universe. Stars… — Rajneesh 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
I think we're coming into a time where it has to do with how you stand in relationship to your own world… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“We...find it hard to conceive of...of a consciousness whose power, intellect and capacity can be both infinite and capable of caring," we… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Let your thoughts run free, as if your mind is taking a leisurely Sunday afternoon walk through a garden in spring bloom.… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“If you can begin to see that your thoughts are not the real thing – they’re just thoughts, and as thoughts they… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
“We must try to remember everything, every movement, every stretch, every convulsion that made us how we move as we readily grow… — AainaA-Ridtz A R Copy Share Image
“Thoughts equal creation: If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad), that speeds the creation”; “You attract your dominant… — David B. Feldman Copy Share Image
“Like the octopi, our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
“Once you have realised that there is no objective external world to be found; that what you know is only a filtered… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“Man is a moving being. If he does not move to what is good, he will surely move to that what is… — Issai Chozanshi Copy Share Image
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
