about thinking Quotes

“Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns (….)”

“In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.”

“We think we owe everyone something. We think we need to explain ourselves and we think too much about thinking too much.And it is funny how we think we know it all, but the reality is this: everything we think that brings us together is everything that sets us further apart. And over thinking of how different we all are; is failing to recognize of how connected we all could really be.”

“In the strictest sense, we cannot actually think about life and reality at all, because this would have to include thinking about thinking, thinking about thinking about thinking, and so ad infinitum. One can only attempt a rational, descriptive philosophy of the universe on the assumption that one is totally separate from it. But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them.”

“Life isn't about just talking, it's about thinking too.”

“Some stuff which I do aren't some kind a cheats or this kind a of stuff it's about thinking and it's about how clever am I!”

“When you are worried about thinking why you can't, you are losing the reasons why you should.”

“If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.”

“This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works for a little while, but in the end you always come back to the thing you were trying not to think about, only now whatever it was is worse.”