Our Thoughts Quotes - Page 19

• Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Past, Essentials, Spirit

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• When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Energy, World, Levels

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2014). “Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose”, p.12, Hay House, Inc

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• I truly have come to believe that there are only two states of being that generate our thoughts: LOVE or FEAR.

  Brenda Strong

  Believe, Two, States

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• It is a crucial time to be mindful of our thoughts.

  Brenda Strong

  Crucial

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• What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

  Ai Weiwei

  Important, Wish, Realms

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• We must receive the one who curses us as a messenger from God, rebuking our hidden evil thoughts, so that we, seeing our thoughts with exactness, might correct ourselves. For we do not know how many hidden evils we have; Only a perfect man can understand all of his own shortcomings.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Introverts process information internally, and we don't like to express our thoughts until they are fully formed.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Information, Introvert, Process

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Humility, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Believe, Independent, Answers

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Thinking, World, New World

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

  Tara Brach

  Meditation, Helping, Moments

  "The stress of the holidays — and 2016 — may make this the perfect time to try meditation". www.washingtonpost.com. December 5, 2016.

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• Making a U-turn from our thoughts to our feelings re-connects us to our own inner experience and creates the grounds for connecting with others in a more authentic way. It's a movement from head to heart.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Feelings, Movement

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, World, Projection

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Art, Distance, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.

  Mark Coleman

  Judging, Ordinary, Different

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Gestures come first! Before we're consciously aware of our thoughts, we start to gesture. Pay attention to your gestures, and others', and you can become a more powerful communicator.

  Nick Morgan

  Powerful, Attention, Gestures

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Helping, Said, Needed Help

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Study your thoughts and question them. What am I telling myself that is keeping me stuck or holding me back? What is this pattern of thinking that says I'm less than I am, which is absolute magnificence? It's our thoughts that hold us back.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Thinking, Patterns, Magnificence

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We don't have to change our thoughts. We have to get beneath them, to the very essence from which they emerge.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Essence

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.

  George Saunders

  Moving, Plot, Want

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• The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Nature, Memories

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Oliver Twist”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

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• Consider, for example, lust versus love. When we lust after someone or something, we think in terms of what they (or it) can do for us. When we love, however, our thoughts are immersed in what we can give to someone else. Giving makes us feel good, so we do it happily. But when we lust, we only want to take. When someone we love is in pain, we feel pain. When someone whom we lust is in pain, we only think in terms of what that loss or inconvenience means to us.

  David J. Lieberman

  Pain, Mean, Loss

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• Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

  David J. Lieberman

  Attitude, Reality, Our World

  Dr. David J. Lieberman, Ph.D. (2010). “Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement”, p.107, Macmillan

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• If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

  Rob Payne

  Journey, Legs, Chance

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• We have to be careful not to think that meditation is about getting rid of thoughts. On the contrary, I would say that meditation helps us to creatively engage with our thoughts and not fixate on them.

  Martine Batchelor

  Creativity, Thinking, Meditation

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