Thoughts Quotes
5764 Thoughts quotes by 2727 unique authors
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Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're…
— Frederick Lenz
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Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you are doing. Start…
— Frederick Lenz
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The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not…
— Maximus the Confessor
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All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than…
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying…
— Evagrius Ponticus
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He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger…
— Evagrius Ponticus
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Thoughts become actions, actions become habits, habits become our character, and our character becomes our destiny.
— James Hunter
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Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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Thoughts, words, ideas and information, free from any bonds or restrictions, is the very concrete which pours out a foundation strong enough that upon which…
— Derek R. Audette
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To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money,…
— Wendell Berry
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Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your…
— Frederick Lenz
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If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini…
— Frederick Lenz
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Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent…
— Carl Jung
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We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the…
— Frederick Lenz
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As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot…
— Frederick Lenz
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When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.
— Frederick Lenz
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We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and…
— Frederick Lenz
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To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds…
— Frederick Lenz
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Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will evolve, the more…
— Frederick Lenz
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In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Don't fight with your thoughts or try to suppress them with your will. This will only frustrate you and bind you to your thoughts even…
— Frederick Lenz
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Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention, if…
— Frederick Lenz
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We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and…
— Frederick Lenz
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When your thoughts come and you're trying to stop them, simply say "No". Learn the mantra "No". Every time a thought comes in your mind…
— Frederick Lenz
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Instead of tryig to stop thought when you meditate, focus your attention on love. Suddenly you'll find your thoughts are slacking. Light is everywhere and…
— Frederick Lenz
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