A Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
It’s impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you imagine how exhausted you’d feel trying to control all sixty thousand of those thoughts? Fortunately there’s an easier way and it’s our feelings. Our feelings let us know what we’re thinking.
In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our senses and our feelings, and from these we construct or build a picture of the outside world. From intuition and thought, we construct time. We also construct space from thought and our sensations. From our senses and our feelings, we experience energy, and from our intuitions and our feelings, we experience motion.
Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?
Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.
Our experience of reality is the result of the magical alchemy of the creation of our thoughts, our beliefs, our decisions, our attitudes, our feelings. All of these are, for the most part, unconscious. Mindfulness allows us to watch these thoughts and choices and decisions without being triggered and having to take action and give meaning.
Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.
In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I've always preferred those types of feelings.
Where is the boundary between your thoughts and feelings and my thoughts and feelings? Where does it end - the outer layer of epidermis? If you look at the body as energy - not matter - maybe there's a possibility we as human beings are more connected to one another than we realize.
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