A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts
seriously, for they will shape you.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could have easily have been found already written in a book: but it is a hundred times more valuable if you have arrived at it by thinking for yourself. For only then will it enter your thought system as an integral part and living member, be perfectly and firmly consistent with it and in accord with all its other consequences and conclusions, bear the hue, colour and stamp of your whole manner of thinking, and have arrived at just the moment it was needed ; thus it will stay firmly and forever lodged in your mind.

Now look, my friend, if you come to think it out you will find that in all things our real opinion is not the one from which we have never wavered, but the one to which we have most regularly returned.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Think, think, think.

it takes repetitive exposure over time to a new idea before that idea becomes a natural part of your way of thinking and being.

Thought applies to an idea expressed or unexpressed that comes into your mind as a result of reflection, and reflection takes time.

Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires — if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

It’s been said that we are shaped by our thoughts. If this is true, can you imagine where one healthy thought can lead each day?