“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”— Eckhart Tolle, twitter.com
“The mind will not become quiet upon command. Instead, what most people experience is the inner waterfall, a cascading stream of thoughts.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“The moment you start watching your thoughts, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.”— Eckhart Tolle, twitter.com
“Usually we're only half conscious of the way thoughts direct our life; we're lost in thoughts as if they're reality.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“I think we owe both the dead and the not-yet-living precisely the same thing: the daily awareness that human life is ours only in trust.”— John Green, youtube.com
“In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it's vital to remember that our gods don't choose us. We choose them.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I suspect most of us, deep down, would rather be interesting than happy. I know I would.”— John Green, youtube.com
“All I can say is that sometimes, the world stops me cold and I feel my smallness, and you'd think that would be sad, but it isn't. It only makes me grateful.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I've never bought the romantic notion that scientific understanding somehow robs the universe of its beauty.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Every human who's lived more than a few years on this planet has seen a beautiful sunset and paused to spend one of the last moments of day to be grateful for and overwhelmed by the light.”— John Green, youtube.com
“You feel more out of control as you desperately try to control your thoughts more and more. It's like slapping the water and drowning.”— Robert L. Leahy Ph.D., psychologytoday.com
“His brain was constantly on rewind and reviewing his thoughts and actions. Did I say this? Did she say that? What if I said this? What if this happened?”— Annabella Hagen, psychcentral.com
“Chances are, you know someone with OCD. But it's probably not the person cracking offhand jokes about it; people with OCD often feel ashamed of their obsessive thoughts and behaviors and may struggle to hide their compulsive behavior.”— Karen Pallarito, health.com
“OCD feels like your brain is under attack at all times. Thoughts are so intense and aggressive that it almost feels like they’re taking over, and you can’t focus and live your life like any normal person would want to do.”— Lance Weiss, elitedaily.com
“The difference is those living with OCD are not able to pass off these thoughts quickly as an ‘odd thought’ but often get ‘stuck’ on them even with every attempt to ignore or suppress them.”— Blare June, thoughtcatalog.com
“The whole problem is that OCD makes you incapable of controlling your attention. While nobody has power over what thoughts pop up in their heads, they usually do have autonomy over whether or not they focus on them. This is not the case with OCD.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“My brain had been burping up such inappropriate thoughts at inopportune moments. Mental gas I couldn’t control.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”— Rodman Philbrick, amazon.com