Jasper Johns Quotes

To live is to think.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

Life is but thought.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

We only half live when we only half think

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Thought is the measure of life.

Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

Our life is a creation of our mind.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Life is a state of consciousness.

We either live with intention or exist by default.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

At times I think and at times I am.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.