Cat Quote by Ethan Gilsdorf

Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions.…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the protagonist can…

— Harold Bloom

“Meditative thoughts assist people escape a vapid fantasy life and reconnect with ultimate reality.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The only true joy on earth,” writes Merton, “is to escape from the prison of our own false-self, and enter by love into union…

— Benjamin Riggs

“Thoughts which a man deliberately places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes any one or more of…

— Napoleon Hill

“To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up…

— Anne Lamott

“The mind is capable of amazing feats of self-deception in order to keep its fragile ego intact. My”

— Nat Kozinn

“It is the self-aware screen of awareness, upon which the drama of experience is playing and out of which it is made, that becomes…

— Rupert Spira

“Enrage against laziness of the brain. Occupy your mind continuously with the most luminous passions hidden within you.”

— Klaudio Marashi

“And yet - when one begins to search for the crucial, the definitive moment, the moment which changed all others, one finds one-self pressing,…

— James Baldwin

“The more we take refuge in distraction, the more habituated we become to mere stimulation and the more desensitized to delight. We lose our…

— Tony Reinke

“The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and…

— James Allen