72 Quotes About Thought-life

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.

Your own thoughts serves as the magnet which attracts units of life from the great ocean of life out there.

Shakespeare will not make us better and will not make us worse, but he may allow us to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves.

If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast.

Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.

So how do we deal with the mind? The answer is – by not dealing with it at all. Nothing needs to be resolved, done or pondered upon. Just watching and staying aware.. And the strange thing about the mind is – it goes still the moment we start becoming aware of it. Just like a naughty child when caught doing some mischief, stops.

Isn’t it just like the enemy of our souls to seed our minds with destructive thoughts and fertilize them with some manure? Then we come along and water them like there is no tomorrow. What was a passing thought in my mind had turned into the creature from the black lagoon, slime and all. I should have known better than to play into the ploys of the devil.

I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.