Thoughts and Thinking
- Contemplation: Contemplation means directed thinking.
- Mind moves in one line, directed. This is contemplation.
- Contemplation means thinking. Thinking becomes contemplation when it moves not through association, but is directed.
- Meditation and Contemplation – While both are forms of prayer, the fundamental difference between meditation and contemplation is that meditation is a human mode of prayer whereas contemplation is divinely infused.
- Self-Knowledge: Self-knowledge is the most difficult thing; not because it is difficult, but because you are scared to know about yourself.
- Self-knowledge is a contradiction in terms. When it really happens, there is no self and there is no knowledge.
- A real perception leads you to real Knowledge – If your vision is pure, the latent power of self-knowledge awakens within you.
- Self- knowledge is attained only by him who turns his eyes away from others and into himself.
- Miracles are an obstacle to Self-Knowledge.
- Thoughts and Thinking: Thought means React and Thinking means Reponse
- Thoughts can be learned from others; thinking, never. Thinking you have to learn yourself.
- Thinking is a capacity; thoughts are not.
- Thinking is a quality of your inner being. What does thinking mean? It means to retain your consciousness, to remain alert and aware, to encounter a problem.
- The process of thought is linear and in contemplation the journey inward begins.
- Reaction becomes anger, response always is compassion.
