Lea Salonga Quotes

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I know the things I say go out of my own mouth and into my own ears.

It's hard to turn my internal dialogue off from that character I become.

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Your life is a reflection of how you think

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that never stops talking. Have you noticed that?" And suddenly they become aware that the thoughts go through their heads, whereas before they were so identified with them that they were those thoughts.

I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.