“The popular conception of free will seems to rest on two assumptions: (1) that each of us could have behaved differently than… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“I turn a corner," I offered, "just as someone ahead of me turns the next corner. I can't see what that person… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The Private Life of the Brain (New York: John Wiley, 2000); John McCrone’s Going Inside: A Tour Round a Single Moment of… — David Bodanis Copy Share Image
When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts-thoughts that negate your highest idea about a thing-think again! I want you to do this,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad. But as… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“I asked him what he thought was the biggest barrier to happiness for most people. ‘It’s just a total absence of awareness,… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“In scattering the seed, scattering your 'charity,' your kind deeds, you are giving away, in one form or antoher, part of your… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“the thoughts you think and the way you feel are at the center of what you attract. Rather than looking for things… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Thinking that you're an angel fallen from heaven that I will turn my life as a star that lights the sky thinking… — Coralia Copy Share Image
“The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
In the beginner's mind there is no thought, "I have attained something." All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an… — Haruki Mukarami Copy Share Image
“The world is in some essential sense a construct. Human knowledge is radically interpretive. There are no perspective-independent facts. Every act of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“He wondered where his mind had wandered this time, what life it had lived as a trail of neurons sped through networks… — Karl Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“Think of a new day and think of a new purpose. Think of a new reason out of the reasons of yesterday.… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“You determine your assumptions in this way: Form a mental image, a picture of the state desired, of the person you want… — Neville Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“There are quiet places also in the mind,” he said, meditatively. “But we build bandstand and factories on them. Deliberately—to put a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“If you had been there you would not have noticed. You would not have noticed your own stillness in this thin slice… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“you’ve learned to align your consciousness with your inner Watcher and perch there, observing your physical and emotional feelings. Just one step… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?' The Imass shrugged before replying. 'I think of futility, Adjunct.' 'Do all Imass think about… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Avataric periods are like the spring-tide of creation. They bring a new release of power, a new awakening of consciousness, a new… — Meher Baba 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
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
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 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
