“The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.” ~ Alan Watts — AlanContinue reading “The future is a concept …..”
Tag Archives: Thinking
Thinking Silently
thinking silently a smattering of thoughts are swirling in my mind nothing bad nothing harmful nothing slanderous just normal thinking that I usually do throughout the course of the day
Thinking
brainstorming + bottomless mugs of strong black coffee >>> produces wild and wacky ideas
Just Thinking
nobody ever said that writing comes easy
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein
Thinking ~ Agatha Christie
“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.” ~ Agatha Christie, B: September 15, 1890 – D. January 12, 1976
A Pondering Moment
thinking the unthinkable of an inconsequential matter of no consequence what so ever
I Write Differently ~ Franz Kafka
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~ Franz Kafka
Jackson Pollock Quote
“If people would just look at the paintings, I don’t think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It’s like looking at a bed of flowers, you don’t tear your hair out over what it means.” ~ Jackson Pollock, Died: August 11, 1956 ~ 44 y/o
Thinking ~ Carl Jung
Six Words
Thinking aloud. Let the world hear.
Governments don’t want a population of critical thinking ….
“Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’veContinue reading “Governments don’t want a population of critical thinking ….”
Franz Kafka Quotation: Darkness
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~Franz Kafka
Thinking
“Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.” – Slavoj Žižek
Today
Today was a strange day Woke this morning thinking that today was Saturday but it turned out to be Friday IT was eerily a quiet day odd for a Friday Come tomorrow it being Saturday I should be back to a normal human self
Thinking
“Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” – Albert Einstein
Three Things
“We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.” – Jim Valvano
Robots
I don’t thing the robots are taking over. I think the men who plays with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools. -Ray Bradbury
Mainstream Media
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Life
Life consists in what a man is thinking all day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cookies And Milk
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. -Barbara Jordan
I Write Differently …. – Franz Kafka
Margaret Mead On Thinking
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Jack Kerouac
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds. Jack Kerouac
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato
Allen Ginsberg On Poetry
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Ray Bradbury Quote
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I Was Thinking
A nickel won’t buy a pickle.
Just Thinking
There’s the saying(s) “time goes by to fast,’ “where did the time go?’ “time sure flies when you are having fun,” etc, etc. If you ever want time to go by slow, pull up a chair, sit, relax and give the clock your undivided attention, and witness time passing by. Call it meditation by clock.
A Pondering Moment
Sitting on the couch writing this post while watching TV or is the TV watching me Could it be I am doing both It could be that I am multitasking Its not really a complicated thing to do What I have been watching for most of the day Blue Bloods and Seinfeld Speaking of SeinfeldContinue reading “A Pondering Moment”
George Carlin Quote
I do this real moron thing, it’s called thinking, and I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinion. George Carlin
The Paper Napkin Chronicles
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Existence
“You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.” –Frank Herbert
Just Thinking
Snow is white. When it melts, it’s colorless drops of water. —— A Pondering Mind 9/20/2014
Just Thinking
There are no two clouds that look the same.
Wisdom
Thinking
Dogs make you …..
Dogs make you walk. Politics makes you think. Only boredom makes you old. Barbara Anne Castle October 6, 1910 – May 3, 2002 British politician
Power
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Music
Music is the art of thinking with sounds. –Jules Combarieu
Reality
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. — Thich Nhat Hanh
We may believe ……
We may believe that we know what another person is thinking, but most often our efforts at ‘mind reading’ are projections of our own inner, self-centered concerns. — Susan Edmiston, Leonard Scheff
Thinking
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds. — Jack Kerouac
“Stop thinking,…” – Lao Tzu
“Stop thinking, and end your problems.” – Lao Tzu
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Zen does not confuse… – Alan Watts
We are what we think. …
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The trouble is… – Buddha
Our Life Is Shaped By Our Mind… – The Buddha
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves. – The Buddha
