Quotes about thinking
thinking mind function
sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free. Edith Hamilton
thinking people literature
... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
thinking acting proud
I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting. Eddie Albert
thinking down-and way
Things are finally starting to calm down and be the way they're supposed to be. I think things happen for a reason. Eddie Cibrian
thinking stories scene
I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it. Edan Lepucki
thinking animal return
We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking. Eckhart Tolle
thinking awareness new-earth
Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.
thinking animal gone
The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals.
thinking animal connections
The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.
thinking years two
For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.
thinking mind remember
The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.
thinking self suffering
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.
thinking years consciousness
The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years.
thinking awareness existence
Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.
thinking ego emotion
Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become “I.
thinking people alive
Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake.
thinking recognition acknowledge
If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.
thinking play america
Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'.
thinking happens
Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.
thinking breathing keys
Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.
thinking mind way
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.
thinking essence meditation
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
thinking needs consciousness
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.
thinking hands feet
Feel the energy of your inner body. Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your abdomen, your chest. Feel the life that you are, the life that animates the body. The body then becomes a doorway, so to speak, into a deeper sense of aliveness underneath the fluctuating emotions and underneath your thinking.
thinking opposites serious
Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else. Gilbert K. Chesterton
thinking church needs
I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
thinking would-be married
I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready. Holland Taylor
thinking people blunt
People think you're being dishonest because you're just too blunt. Holland Roden
thinking topics troops
I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place. Holly Johnson
thinking knowing people
It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it Holly Hunter
thinking actors want
I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story
thinking would-be electra
I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in 'Peepshow.' Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great. Holly Madison
thinking would-be easy
I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.