Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

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

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.

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.

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

I have no inner monologue.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

We only half live when we only half think

In every revolution on Earth, consciousness came first.

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.

Every thought is an afterthought.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

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.

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

Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

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

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.