Quotes about thinking
thinking way conscious
One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking. Eckhart Tolle
thinking mind use
Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind. Eckhart Tolle
thinking space awareness
What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself. Eckhart Tolle
thinking practice feelings
Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within you don't already know. When you have reached a certain stage of inner connectedness, you recognize the truth when you hear it. If you haven't reached that stage yet, the practice of body awareness will bring about the deepening that is necessary. Eckhart Tolle
thinking degrees moments
Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment. Eckhart Tolle
thinking mind use
When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect. Eckhart Tolle
thinking links emotion
Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. Eckhart Tolle
thinking realization problem
One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine. Eckhart Tolle
thinking giving world
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. Eckhart Tolle
thinking space breathing
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space. Eckhart Tolle
thinking past think-of-you
Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left? Eckhart Tolle
thinking self people
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have. Eckhart Tolle
thinking meditation noise
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. Eckhart Tolle
thinking situation
How many situations can be resolved with less thinking? Eckhart Tolle
thinking play accomplished
I would think I'd accomplished it all if I could get to play Quasimodo. Elias Koteas
thinking goal today
I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals. Elie Saab
thinking ideas people
Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles. Elie Saab
thinking comedy horror
I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part. Elijah Wood
thinking new-experiences challenges
I think new experiences are extremely important. I think it's really important to constantly challenge yourself. Comfort is not a good thing. It's good to take yourself out of your comfort zone and to look for new challenges. Elijah Wood
thinking people troops
I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it. Elijah Wood
thinking aquarius being-different
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. Elijah Wood
thinking blame think-of-you
How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect? Elif Safak
thinking differences individual
We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans. Eliezer Yudkowsky
thinking want organised
I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised. Eliezer Yudkowsky
thinking media appreciate
My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.... It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think. Eliezer Yudkowsky
thinking fire might
Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts. Eliezer Yudkowsky
thinking worst shows
I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman. Elie Wiesel
thinking opposites people
I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer. Elie Wiesel
thinking photographer sometimes
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same? Elie Wiesel
thinking punishment pessimistic
We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world. Elie Wiesel
thinking higher deeper
Think higher, feel deeper. Elie Wiesel
thinking worst humans
I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible. Elie Wiesel
thinking few-words emphasis
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper. Elie Wiesel