Addiction recovery Quote by Dan Mager

“While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us the feeling…

— Sam Harris

“I could see the value of recognizing thoughts for what they are—fleeting, gossamer, unsubstantial—but aren’t some thoughts connected to concrete realities that need to…

— Dan Harris

“When you bring mindful mindful awareness to your thoughts, you train your mind to settle, and, with time and practice, realize you don't have…

— Carmel Sheridan

We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach ourselves from…

— Frederick Lenz

“My thoughts, normally bunched together, wrapped in gauze, insistent, urgent, impatient, one moment to the next, living in what I now realize is, in…

— Charles Yu

“There is an alternative to simply identifying with the next thought that pops into consciousness.” That alternative is mindfulness.”

— S.J. Scott

“But to be able to bear one's own mind, to wait while the inner storm of intolerable thoughts blows itself out, leaving one to…

— Hanif Kureishi

Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in…

— Gabor Maté

“All thoughts—good thoughts, bad thoughts, lovely thoughts, evil thoughts—occur within something. All thoughts arise and disappear into a vast space. If you watch your…

— Adyashanti

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

— Ram Dass

“All negative thoughts – anger, fear, passion, compulsive craving -- tend to be fast. If we could see the mind when it is caught…

— Eknath Easwaran