“The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to sca…”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”— Thomas Szasz, whatsupatupstate.wordpress.com
“We may not be aware of it, but we are constantly changing our loyalties. The external self claims us at work or enjoying ourselves at a party or buying a new house. The private self claims us in matters of the heart, in moments of depression and anxiety, and in our family life. The unconscious self…”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“Your mind has countless levels. At higher levels, you possess much more control and authority than you realize.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Practicing silence means making a commitment to take a certain amount of time to simply Be.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Mind is a fundamental part of reality, not a byproduct. Yet what if neuroscience did concede, against all odds, that the mind is a non-physical attribute of reality. Where would that take us? The next step in the evolution of scientific thought points away from materialism to a newly fashionable con…”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”— Marcel Poust, amazon.com
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken…”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.”— Marina Abramovic, beta.theglobeandmail.com