personal development on Thought

But it’s not so simple, that sort of “quiet hour”. It has to be learned. A lot of unimportant inner litter and bits and pieces have to be swept out first. Even a small head can be piled high inside wi...

A remarkable aspect of your mental life is that you are rarely stumped.

The greatest spiritual battle of our generation is being fought between our ears.

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.

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

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...

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

The average person has more than thirty thousand thoughts per day. Of those, so many are negative that “according to researchers, the vast majority of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct r...

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...

We sow a thought and reap an act; We sow an act and reap a habit; We sow a habit and reap a character; We sow a character and reap a destiny.

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.

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