To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Finally, thoughts also have an impact on your physical health. The subconscious mind tells the body what to do, how to feel,… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
“We can control and direct our thoughts, but it often feels like our thoughts have minds of their own, controlling us and… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
“While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“When you take a moment to peel back the layers of time and space in your current state of perception, you soon… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and… — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
It's about quieting your mind and getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn't matter in that moment. There are… — Russell Okung Copy Share Image
“In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do… — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
“A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy tales Acts like a sick god, but like a god. Because even… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where might I be, if I were… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real,… — Phil Lesh Copy Share Image
“Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“such thoughts had often knocked for entrance, but had always been excluded for the very good reason that if they were once… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Did you realize that 90 to 99 percent of what goes on in the universe is either infra (below) or ultra (beyond)… — P.M.H. Atwater Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings,… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
“Life is a spread of surprises and it is both a privilege and a challenge to respond to things and events, and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Yet, with a weakness of mind not uncommon to great criminals, he shrank from the thoughts of his own baseness and cruelty,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The ability to discern the thoughts and motives of your heart (especially when experiencing intense emotion) is an essential skill for the… — Lou Priolo Copy Share Image
This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When I first began to explore the nature of the mind professionally, there was no term in our everyday language that captured… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha!… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image