Mental Shift Quotes

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.

The [American] Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

I'll never forget the moment in class when I went from being afraid to fail, to expecting to fail. This informs everything I do.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

I hadn’t thought of that.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

Change your thinking, and you will change your life.

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

Because God is better than we think we have to change the way we think.

Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts.

When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.

I'm able to switch gears at any moment.

My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.

I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.

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.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.