“How does silence find its way out of that noisy, chattering mind? That endless maze of thought, concept, opinion, belief? How does perfect silence and pure consciousness find its way out of that maze? Very simply: Bring yourself present with something that's HERE, in the moment. Then you'll be HERE again.” WayMindDoeMomentsBeliefPerfectConsciousnessSilenceOpinionPureConceptsEndlessLive In The MomentNoisyMazes Author:Leonard Jacobson
“In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.” YearsMindHumansStatesUseOpinionJudgmentConceptsPatternsLabelsCollectivesHuman MindPossessedConditioning Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.” MenI CanIdeasDifficultOpinionInformationConceptsDirectStructureWesternValuableFiltersInterveningBombarded Book:Travels Source: Travels
“Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.” SometimesLawSocialOpinionConceptsAcceptedPrecedent Book:Critical Path Source: Critical Path