thought on Thoughtfulness

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

In his book The Allure of Gentleness , Dallas Willard includes a thought-provoking excerpt from Richard Robinson, a prominent atheist thinker from the mid-20th century. In his work An Atheist’...

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

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

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

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

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

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.

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embeddin...

Many of us tend to be passive with our thoughts and feelings. We treat them like they rule us, like they are in charge of us, and not the other way around. We forget that our thoughts and feelings are...

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.

My thought it is a wanton ranger,  It skips away;  I fear 'twill bring my soul in danger  On Judgment Day...

One thing is certain: if you don’t shape your life, it will be shaped for you. And to shape your life, you need to know how to shape your mind—you need mind-management.

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...

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

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...

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

The insight that we can exercise some control over our thoughts and feelings is deep in Christianity.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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.

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

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...

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...

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a l...

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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...

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...

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

To most people nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

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