“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.”
Alan Watts
Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your character
Your character becomes your destiny.
True Refuge, page 114. Tara Brach
Mohandas Gandhi
“Anyone who listens to the word and takes no action is like someone who looks at his own features in a mirror and, once he has seen what he looks like, goes off and immediately forgets it. But anyone who looks steadily at the perfect law of freedom and keeps to it—not listening and forgetting, but putting it to practice—will be blessed in every undertaking.”
James 1:23-25
“It is unnatural to our divine design to let our thoughts live for too long in the past; such an imbalance creates time warps that interfere with our ability to live in the present and receive spiritual guidance each day. That guidance will make no sense to us if we focus only on unraveling the mysteries of yesterday. If we live fully in the present moment, the mysteries of yesterday will gradually be unraveled for us.”
Anatomy of the Spirit,
Carolyn Myss
“A mind that is stretched to a new idea, never returns to its original dimension.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“What are you thinking about?” asked Tiny Dragon. “Nothing,” said Big Panda.
“It’s wonderful.”
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon,
James Norbury
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