We often find that we cannot easily give up the tendency to hold rigidly to patterns of thought built up over a long time. We are then caught up in what may be called absolute necessity. This kind of thought leaves no room at all intellectually for any other possibility, while emotionally and physically, it means we take a stance in our feelings, in our bodies, and indeed, in our whole culture, of holding back or resisting. This stance implies that under no circumstances whatsoever can we allow ourselves to give up certain things or change them.

Difference exist because thought develops like a stream that happens to go one way here and another way there. Once it develops it produces real physical resul…

If I am right in saying that thought is the ultimate origin or source, it follows that if we don't do anything about thought, we won't get anywhere. We may mom…

Suppose you have two religions. Thought defines religion - the thought about the nature of God and various questions like that. Such thought is very important …

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free its…

Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.