Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.
After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing. In fact, you place so little value on experience that when what your experience of God differs from what you've heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around.
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.
In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.
Beautiful thoughts, build a beautiful soul.
I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. . . . The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.
May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.
It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.
Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Always keeping in mind that you become what you think about, be very careful about any thoughts you harbor that involve doubt.
Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts.