Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.
Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.
You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind.
If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.
[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.
I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel. " "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.
The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.
Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them
I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast. Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.
Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.
I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to life. Every so often a talented actor doesn't hook in correctly to a character; or someone gets lost in a labyrinth of over-complicated thoughts, and the character and play suffer. However, most of the time I find actors either end up doing exactly what was in my head, or sometimes do something even better.
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought. . . in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system. . . but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. . . . Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a defeatist or negative thought. Since we create through thought, we need to concentrate very strongly on positive thoughts. If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can. It is important that our thoughts be constantly for the best that could happen in a situation - for the good things we would like to see happen.
You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and there’s a whole other world. I’m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . I’m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isn’t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.