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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.

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

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.