Ariel Garten Quotes

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

Your mind is the greatest home entertainment center ever created. It requires contemplative silence to really discover who you truly are. You have immense talents, resources and abilities that are untapped.

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

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?

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.