"The harder you tried not to think,..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.
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More on Mind
“I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.”
“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.”
“Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness”
More on Thought
“...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.”
“Abraham: You did not come into this environment to create through action. Instead, your action is meant to be a way in which you enjoy what you have created through thought.”
“For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.”