“Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.”
Nan Yar = Who am I?
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Indian religious leader 1879–1950Related quotes

“Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all thought, for thought and feeling dissipate energy.”
They are repetitive, producing mechanical activities which are a necessary part of existence. But they are only part, and thought and feeling cannot possibly enter into the immensity of life. Quite a different approach is necessary, not the path of habit, association and the known; there must be freedom from these. Meditation is the emptying of the mind of the known. It cannot be done by thought or by the hidden prompting of thought, nor by desire in the form of prayer, nor through the self-effacing hypnotism of words, images, hopes, and vanities. All these have to come to an end, easily, without effort and choice, in the flame of awareness.
Source: 1970s, Meditations (1979), p. 105

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History

“First thought: It was a dream
Second thought: No it wasn't
Third thought: Crap”
Source: Twisted

p. 273. https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/273/mode/1up
Memories (1919) https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/n0/mode/2up
interview by Suzan Campbell, May 15, 1989; transcript in 'Archives of American Art', The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
One of her first grid paintings she made in New York in 1964, it was [ https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78361 titled 'The Tree']. Martin often described this painting as her first grid. In fact, she had been making them since at least the beginning of 1960's
1980 - 2000

“The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.”
Source: The Lost Symbol