Contemplating Quote by Martin Luther

“ Homo sapiens have left themselves few places and scant ways to witness other species in their own worlds, an estrangement that leaves us…

— Ellen Meloy

“Very few animals on earth have the ability to think cogent thoughts to begin with, but we humans have the luxury of being able…

— Mark Manson

Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best way of finding a solution is…

— José Saramago

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly,…

— Anonymous

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“All thoughts are prey to some beast”

— Bill Callahan

You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself…

— Sydney, Lady Morgan

We miraculously become what we read. The mind is the sculptor of ones-self, amazingly creating the essence of who we are.

— Johnny Luckett

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find…

— Brother Lawrence

“There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees,…

— Michel Foucault

If we allow our thoughts to arise and dissolve by themselves, they will pass through our mind as a bird flies through the sky,…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche