“What we think, we become.”

— Gautama Buddha

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philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563–-483 BC

Ralph Smart

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Nicholas Carr (1959) American writer

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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917–2008) Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician

“The fact that seems to underlie this exhortation is that we become what we think about.”

Frank Crane (1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister

Everyday Wisdom (1927)

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

McKenna interview (1992)
Context: I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow — you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.