Thinking Quotes

If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.

Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images.

When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.

At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties.

Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.

If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.

Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.

Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.

Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.

I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the funeral home; that's about it.

There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

It is good not to think of karma as an alien force that is outside of yourself. You are the generator of karma. Karma is the energy patterns that emanate from your life.

My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

Think of what you love most in this world. This is what you will come back to in your next life.

It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.

The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you think it should be?

There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.

There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right.

I think it is best to let the experience you have with a teacher direct itself, Instead of trying to make the experience into what you might like it to be. Leave it alone!

The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.

Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

I don't really think there's a need to have a men's line. I think a lot of the men's lines just take the products for women and put them in different containers. It's all psychological.

I think I've always admired sort of dynamic filmmakers, which doesn't shy away from strong expressions. Which might be a little more theatrical at some points.

I think digital. I think digital and I was terrified about it for a long time. But I think digital because it gives so much more freedom to work with the actors.

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

I think science and religion should be separate.

I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excitement to think of anything else.

There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.