Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 117

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

— James Frey

In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever.

— Rajneesh

“Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act”

— Adrienne Rich

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man is the products of his thoughts. He is what he thought.

— Reny By The Secret

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

— Petrarch

“Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.”

— George MacDonald

“I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns…

— Kim Krizan

“One day we will all be a photo, a lifeless picture! But this thought is valid only for now, it may not…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic…

— Joan D. Chittister

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit…

— Marianne Williamson

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

— Joseph Joubert

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than…

— Zadie Smith

“Particularly at those moments when we have the sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of thought…

— Victor Hugo

“It was funny when you realized that none of the thoughts running through your head had made it into the outside world,…

— Meg McKinlay

“Although we experience the ego as the continuing centre of our existence it is, in fact, merely the Self’s executive. ‘For indeed…

— Anthony Stevens

Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms…

— Fred Alan Wolf

“I feel these forbidden thoughts creep in sometimes without warning. Slow thoughts that always start quietly, like whispers you're not even sure…

— Amber Smith

“Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all.…

— Fritz Leiber

The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what…

— Carl Jung

“When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Be good, said this teacher. be good, the community said. Be good, my name reminded me. But could the inside of your…

— Tova Mirvis

The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward…

— Orville Dewey

“Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realize”

— Sylvia Clare

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!

— Akira Toriyama

“We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.”

— Robert Fanney

“Whether your thoughts and feelings are good or bad, they return as automatically and precisely as an echo.”

— Rhonda Byrne

“Thoughts make our choices, and our choices make our actions, which make our lives.”

— Victor Methos

Make strive to change your perspective from negative thought to positive thought.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

You can't think the thoughts you want to think if you think you're being watched.

— Chris Rock

“mind is not a product of reality, but that reality is a product of the mind, or consciousness.”

— John Crawford

Until thought is linked with a purpose, there is no intelligent accomplishment!

— Anonymous

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.

— Caroline Myss

Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.

— Amit Ray

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

— Ayn Rand

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

— Criss Jami

“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson