thought-life

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought.

The ability to experience bliss requires the gift of attentive awareness, curiosity, and constant learning. We are ultimately the product of what we want _ our personal obsessions _ and how we think. Thoughts merge into feelings that determine if we are happy or sad. Feelings can manifest into thoughts that drive our ambitions and guide our personal actions, which enable us to live an intensified life.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Eight weeks of practice in meditation, even with those with no previous experience, was enough reconfigure the brains of participants. The gray matter which fuels worry shrank, and the area associated with healthy thought awareness group.

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Naturally all of us don't think we deserve very much. We don't believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent is to expect the worst. Our natural tendency is to be negative and doubtful. It is actually very hard to be positive. It takes faith to be positive and believe that good things are in our future.

My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

Let your imagination takes you where you want to be.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

When you begin to fantasize about what you don't have, you begin to kill what you do have. #marriage