© Silver Lining Of Your Cloud 2014
Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Thinking
Meet everyone and everything through stillness rather than mental noise.
~Eckhart Tolle
Thoughts appear and disappear but they are not “mine” so they don’t bother
me. Let them come, let them go. What does it matter? They are nothing to do
with me. ~Papaji
Nothing divides one so much as thought. ~R. H. Blyth
The human condition: lost in thought. ~Eckhart Tolle
Life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of
it. For that you’ve go to wake up and then you’ll suddenly realize that reality
is not problematic, you are the problem. ~Anthony de Mello
Nothing is either good or bad. It’s thinking that makes it so. ~William
Shakespeare
Whatever you think concerning God—know that he is different from that!
~Ahmad Ibn Ata’Allah
It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for
acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living. ~Ernest Wood
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize
this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.
This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner
stillness that is inseparable from Being. ~Eckhart Tolle
The mind won’t allow you to be in the moment…ever. ~Vicki Woodyard
Knowing that all thought is reactive and one step behind the present
moment, we may begin to just listen, to observe without reaction. In this
quiet, listening mind, something Real has the possibility of entering. ~Bob
Fergeson
Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what
is. You don’t want to be where you are. Here, Now. ~Eckhart Tolle
The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When
you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see
clearly that the thinker is not who you are. ~Eckhart Tolle
When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there
was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened. ~Carl
Jung
Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you,
and that image isn’t you. ~Don Miguel Ruiz
Don’t think, just do. ~Horace
Perfect kindness acts without thinking kindness. ~Lao Tzu
There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary.
But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can
recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen.
Just recognize that which is not thinking. ~Adyashanti
Those who are clever, who have brain, never understand anything. ~Winnie
the Pooh
One thought follows another without interruption. But if you allow these
thoughts to link up to a chain, you put yourself in bondage. ~Zen saying
The power to think which had hitherto been a matter of ordinary pride, now
becomes a thing from which to escape, for I perceive with startling clarity
that I had become its unconscious captive. ~Paul Brunton
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or
against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst
disease. ~Bruce Lee
Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are
impediments to seeing your own face. Don’t give rise to any thought, and
discover who you are. ~Papaji
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are
not the voice of the mind–you are the one who hears it. ~Michael A. Singer
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ~Charlotte Bronte
The present moment is never involved in thinking. Whenever you think, you
must be thinking of something from the past or something in the future. You
spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the
present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality. ~Leonard
Jacobson
My trouble is, I analyze life instead of living it. ~Hugh Prather
Thoughts are not necessarily a distraction. Thoughts are arising in this
present awareness and dissolving back into it. The silence remains
untouched, unstained, immaculate. Thoughts are only a problem if you are
preoccupied with them, giving them all your attention, believing in the entity
of “me” around which the thoughts swirl. ~Catherine Ingram
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you
nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a
Revelation. ~Eileen Caddy
In the simple, direct experience of what is, you have an ongoing opportunity
to awaken out of the trance the mind perpetuates to the radiant fullness and
completeness of being. Just keep letting go and surrendering to what is.
~Stephan Bodian
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that
which you are. ~Kabir
As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it. ~Lao Tzu
Worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get
you anywhere. ~Zen proverb
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost
nothing. ~Marc Chagall
The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve
love. And then life can become a festival of lights. ~Osho
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
~Anthony de Mello
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t
really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what
is beyond thought. ~Adyashanti
Life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of
it. ~Anthony de Mello
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its
wings but will not fly. ~Kahlil Gibran
To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all!
And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed.
Every time you come here, you are nothing. Radiantly nothing. Absolutely
and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full.
Emptiness that is everything. ~Adyashanti
Memory is a false witness, because it was not present at the time of the
activity reported as being remember. ~Atmananda Krishna Menon
The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Here it is–right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it. ~Huang-Po
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade.
It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
~D.H. Lawrence
He never really found his Self because he wanted to trap it in the net of
thoughts. ~Hermann Hesse
The only thing that identifies you with a painful condition is thought.
~Kenneth G. Mills
Being must be felt. It can’t be thought. ~Eckhart Tolle
Life is simple–thinking is complicated. ~Peter Cajander
There is nothing wrong with a thought as long as you know it’s a thought.
The difficulty lies when you have a thought and don’t recognize it as a
thought; you call it your condition. ~Kenneth G. Mills
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what
you observe. ~Buddha
Reality can only be seen in the absence of thought and belief. ~Scott Kiloby
No thought can tell you who you are. ~Michael Jeffreys
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find
everything in silence. ~Gangaji
Thinking produces noisy and wrong action. Seeing allows silent and right
action. ~Vernon Howard
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of
thinking. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by
ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality. ~Hui-Neng
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind
them. ~Eckhart Tolle
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. ~Swami
Sivananda
As you dissolve into love, you’re not thinking about loving; you’re just
being love, radiating like the sun. ~Ram Dass
You can know something without it become words in your mind. Be able to
trust in that deeper intelligence that can move through you. ~Eckhart Tolle
In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.
~Milarepa
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds
back. ~Ram Dass
Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box. ~Deepak Chopra
Something that is not touched by thought has an extraordinary sense of
beauty ~ J. Krishnamurti
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thought.
So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion. ~Alan Watts
Don’t think or judge, just listen. ~Sarah Dessen
Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything. But once we get
drunk on Love whatever will be, will be. ~Rumi
Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness
is forever. ~Deepak Chopra
Love all your thoughts, even those that are limited or fearful. Think of them
as small children needing your love and reassurance. If you catch a negative
thought, don’t make yourself wrong for having it. Love all your negative
thoughts and they will have far less power over you. ~Orin
We are often so identified with whatever thoughts we may be having that we
don’t realize that the thoughts are a commentary on reality. ~Gangaji
Truth is that which lies in a dimension beyond the reach of thought. Whole-
mind has no ‘thoughts’, thoughts are split-mind. ~Wei Wu Wei
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not
personal. They’re like the breeze or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops
falling. Thoughts arise like that, and we can make friends with them. Would
you argue with a raindrop? ~Byron Katie
I think—therefore I do not understand. ~Swami Vrhka Baba
The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able
to hear. ~Ram Dass
Until the storm of conceptual thinking subsides and the mind learns to rest in
a fasting state, one’s true nature must remain unknown and inaccessible.
~Ramesh Balkesar
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a
sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ~Eric Benne
Spontaneous true happiness is beyond thoughts. It is the wisdom of the Self.
~Tony Samara
Thoughts are like sunglasses; they don’t alter your view until you put them
on. ~Michael Jeffreys
The silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.
~Deepak Chopra
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. ~U.G.
Krishnamurti
Restless thoughts are a kind of mental ‘static’ which must be silenced if we
are to hear the whispers of our inner self. ~John Novak
But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety
percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential
reality. ~Charlotte J. Beck
When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the
grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is
upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives. ~Brenda Shoshanna