conscious thought Quotes

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

It's all in the mind.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

Nothing can occur in your life experience without the invitation of it through your thought.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.