“Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“When we cease to exist, the world we make dissolves, not the world that other people inhabit. Our perception and the way… — Tenzin Wangyal Copy Share Image
“Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“A stream of symbols appears at the same location on a computer screen. Most of the symbols are digits, but some are… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“And thinking in itself deals with that which is best in itself, and that which is thinking in the fullest sense with… — Aristotle Metaphysics 1072b1830 Copy Share Image
There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts… — Ray Stevens Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe is alive and compassionate and that with it and with other… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion… — James W Sire Copy Share Image
When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“When you drop your desire in consciousness as a seed, confident that it shall appear in its full-blown potential, you have done… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . .… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Throughout your day, when you notice that your thoughts have drifted away, come back to where you are. You'll instantly see why… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
“But, then, I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, which does not change every moment,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“A person who has resolved to ‘think positive’ must constantly scan his or her mind for negative thoughts – there’s no other… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“The wonder of an object is that it is not a thought. A thing is first and foremost itself. An inconsequential pebble… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“No two people have exactly the same view of the world. Therefore, the most important science of all is the science of… — Daniel Reid Copy Share Image
“Wait till you see the bedrooms,” Eleanor said. “Mine used to be the embalming room, I think.” “It’s the home I’ve always… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“The Wanderer will stop when they recognize the activities of the mind and refuse to follow it any longer. The Wanderer realizes… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
“Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device. It… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is… — John Wain Copy Share Image
Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Indeed, since ancient times, when the life of which I do know something began, people who knew the arguments concerning the vanity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
'In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty'. A… — Harvey Spencer Lewis Copy Share Image
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
“The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The conscious energy of attention can be used to do literally anything because it’s a focalization of the imagination, the binding life… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Abstractions do us much harm by impelling us to the quest of the absolute in all things. Joy does not exist, but… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
