Sublime

TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

The meaning of a thought, insight, or memory often isn’t immediately clear. We need to write them down, revisit them, and view them from a different perspective in order to digest what they mean to us. It is exceedingly difficult to do that within the confines of our heads.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

It is the accumulated pressure of feelings that causes thoughts. One feeling, for instance, can create literally thousands of thoughts over a period of time. Think, for instance, of one painful memory from early life, one terrible regret that has been hidden. Look at all the years and years of thoughts associated with that single event. If we could

All kinds of thoughts arise naturally. If you have lots of time to sit, endless thoughts happen constantly. The approach to that is actually no approach. Reduce everything to the thought level—recognize that all of this is just thinking. Usually, if you have mental chatter, you call it your thoughts. But if you have deeply involved emotional chatte

“In so far as the mind conceives a thing under the dictate of reason, it is affected equally, whether the idea be of a thing present, past, or future.”