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It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.