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Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life… — Norman Cousins
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. — Peter McWilliams
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking. — Susan L. Taylor
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. — Guy de Maupassant
Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind. — Rajneesh
Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life.… — Rajneesh
Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness has to be… — Rajneesh
The mind is just like a crowd; thoughts are the individuals. And because thoughts are there continuously you think the process is substantial. Drop each… — Rajneesh
First examine what is constantly there in your mind, what is being repeated again and again. You don't have many thoughts. If you examine minutely… — Rajneesh
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need… — Rajneesh
The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts… — Rajneesh
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom… — Hugh Prather
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — Barbara Tuchman
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away… — Johann Gottfried Herder
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be… — Zach Wamp
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it… — Winston Churchill
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. — Bertrand Russell

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