life on planet earth on Thought

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Did you know that more has been discovered about our minds in the last twenty years than in all the time before that? Did you know that an estimated 60 to 80 percent of visits to primary care physicia...

In the first chapter of her book, Get Out of Your Head , author Jennie Allen shares a vulnerable and honest moment from her own life about just how hard it can be to focus in a world of distraction...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

I began to see a pattern at work in many of us. Our emotions were leading us to thoughts, and those thoughts were dictating our decisions, and our decisions were determining behaviors, and then the be...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Our lives are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts. What we think shapes who we are.

In recent years, an entire discipline of modern psychology has developed called cognitive behavioral therapy. This breakthrough teaching reveals that many problems, from eating disorders to relational...

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Too often we give real estate to things in our lives that either haven’t earned their land or were never meant to occupy important space in the first place.

The desert saints said that the beginning of renouncing a thought is simply noticing it. That is part of what I’m doing in my quarter hours—I am noticing, and naming, and then, for a few minutes, quar...

There is no way out of one’s inner life, so one had better get into it. On the inward and downward spiritual journey, the only way out is through.

Mind-management is a skill that needs to be learned and constantly upgraded as we grow from childhood into adulthood. For every new experience we need a new set of mind-management tools.

God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is...

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.