Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.