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By Consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.
There are two sides to every question; There but for the grace of God go I; There is an exception to every rule; There are always more fish in the sea; There is honour among thieves; There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle; There is many a slip 'twixt cup and lip; There is more than one way to skin a cat
Neutralizing thought — The act of mentally erasing thought images. New Thought - the ideas that "Infinite Intelligence" or "God" is ubiquitous, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect.
This would mean that thought is composed of certain atomic representational constituents that can be combined as described above. [ 37 ] [ 32 ] [ 40 ] Apart from this abstract characterization, no further concrete claims are made about how human thought is implemented by the brain or which other similarities to natural language it has. [ 37 ]
Of every two contradictorily opposite predicates one must belong to every subject. Truth is the reference of a judgment to something outside it as its sufficient reason or ground. Also: The laws of thought can be most intelligibly expressed thus: Everything that is, exists. Nothing can simultaneously be and not be.
Rudolf Steiner developed exercises aimed at cultivating new cognitive faculties he believed would be appropriate to contemporary individual and cultural development. . According to Steiner's view of history, in earlier periods people were capable of direct spiritual perceptions, or clairvoyance, but not yet of rational thought; more recently, rationality has been developed at the cost of ...
When I say every 'state' or 'thought' is part of a personal consciousness, 'personal consciousness' is one of the terms in question. Its meaning we know so long as no one asks us to define it, but to give an accurate account of it is the most difficult of philosophic tasks.
According to Blavatsky, each and every individual has a higher self. [17] She wrote: By that higher intuition acquired by Theosophia—or God-knowledge, which carried the mind from the world of form into that of formless spirit, man has been sometimes enabled in every age and every country to perceive things in the interior or invisible world. [18]