Thoughts

• Mosiah 24:12…God knows the thoughts of our heart
• Alma 12:14…Our words, works, and thoughts can condemn us
• Alma 12:3…The Lord knows all our thoughts, and thoughts of others can be made known by the Spirit
• Alma 18:16…When filled with the Holy Ghost, one can perceive the thoughts of others
• Alma 12:3…God knows all thoughts (we can read other’s thoughts by Spirit)
• Alma 18:32…God knows our Thoughts
• 3 Nephi 24:16…Book of Remembrance written for those who think on His name
• Alma 12:14…Words, works, & Thoughts will condemn us
• Philippians 4:8-9…Think good things
• Micah 4:12…We don’t understand Thoughts of the Lord nor understand His counsel
• Doctrine and Covenants 121:45…Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God, and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distill upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.
• “Once there was a man who enjoyed taking evening walks around his neighborhood. He particularly looked forward to walking past his neighbor’s house. This neighbor kept his lawn perfectly manicured, flowers always in bloom, the trees healthy and shady. It was obvious that the neighbor made every effort to have a beautiful lawn. But one day as the man was walking past his neighbor’s house, he noticed in the middle of this beautiful lawn a single, enormous, yellow dandelion weed. It looked so out of place that it surprised him. Why didn’t his neighbor pull it out? Couldn’t he see it? Didn’t he know that the dandelion could cast seeds that could give root to dozens of additional weeds? This solitary dandelion bothered him beyond description, and he wanted to do something about it. Should he just pluck it out? Or spray it with weed killer? Perhaps if he went under cover of night, he could remove it secretly. These thoughts totally occupied his mind as he walked toward his own home. He entered his house without even glancing at his own front yard—which was blanketed with hundreds of yellow dandelions.” Dieter F. Uchtdorf, October 2014 General Conference
• “If you are in a job you don’t care for, if you want to change your position, if you are having problems at work, or if you are out of work, the best way to handle it is this: Begin by blessing your current position with love. Realize that this is only a stepping stone on your pathway. You are where you are because of your own thinking patterns.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 105
• “What does “failure” mean anyway? Does it mean that something did not turn out the way you wanted it to, or the way you were hoping? The law of experience is always perfect. We out-picture our inner thoughts and beliefs perfectly. You must have left out a step or had an inner belief that told you that you did not deserve — or you felt unworthy.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 109
• “In other words, creative thought is the search for an idea that already exists, not the act of waiting for one to pop into your head.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 14
• “Although you’re wired to solve problems, you’re not wired to accurately define them. In the fight for survival, which determined your inherent characteristics, the ability to make a quick decision was more important than the ability to make an accurate one. You’re wired for speed and not precision. Imagine your ancient ancestor observing the rustling of the grass approaching him on the prehistoric savannah. This was either a saber-toothed tiger or the wind blowing the tall grass. The ancestor who made a quick decision to run was the one who survived, passing this trait to you; the one who stayed to determine the source of the rustling grass was more apt to be eaten by the tiger. His genes, and aptitude for problem analysis, were taken out of the gene pool long before modern times. Speed of thought is in your genetic makeup. It served your ancestors well with life-threatening problems, but now causes you to misdiagnose the not-so-life-threatening ones you now face.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 35
• “The Universe Totally Supports Us in Every Thought We Choose to Think and Believe” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 2
• “The Only Thing We Are Ever Dealing With Is a Thought, and a Thought Can Be Changed. No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 5
• “Believe It or Not, We Do Choose Our Thoughts. We may habitually think the same thought over and over so that it does not seem we are choosing the thought. But we did make the original choice. We can refuse to think certain thoughts.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 5
• “We Can Change Our Attitude Toward the Past. The past is over and done. We cannot change that now. Yet we can change our thoughts about the past. How foolish for us to PUNISH OURSELVES in the present moment because someone hurt us in the long-ago past.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 7
• “Whatever I choose to believe becomes true for me. Whatever you choose to believe becomes true for you. Our thoughts can be totally different. Our lives and experiences are totally different.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 33
• “Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, “What kinds of thoughts am I having that create this?” If you allow yourself to sit quietly and ask this question, your inner intelligence will show you the answer.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 34
•  “Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 37
• “If you hear yourself expressing negative words of any sort, stop in mid-sentence. Either rephrase the sentence or just drop it. You could even say to it, “Out!” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 37
• “Imagine yourself in line at a cafeteria, or perhaps at a buffet in a luxurious hotel, where instead of dishes of food, there are dishes of thoughts. You get to choose any and all the thoughts you wish. These thoughts will create your future experiences. Now, if you choose thoughts that will create problems and pain, that’s rather foolish. It’s like choosing food that always makes you ill. We may do this once or twice, but as soon as we learn which foods upset our bodies, we stay away from them. It’s the same with thoughts. Let us stay away from thoughts that create problems and pain.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 37 
• Moroni 7:  11…For behold, a bitter fountain cannot bring forth good water; neither can a good fountain bring forth bitter water; wherefore, a man being a servant of the devil cannot follow Christ; and if he follows Christ he cannot be a servant of the devil.
• February 18th, 1995 – Saturday. Puyo, Ecuador…”We ate breakfast with President this morning. We talked about some doctrine and he told me not to waste my time thinking of things that have nothing to do with my salvation. I’ll work on that in my thoughts & studies.” – Clinton Brown Missionary Journal 
• (Pro. 23:7) “The great overall struggle in the world today is, as it has always been, for the souls of men. Every soul is personally engaged in the struggle, and he makes his fight with what is in his mind. In the final analysis, the battleground is, for each individual, within himself. Inevitably he gravitates toward the subjects of his thoughts.” (Marion G. Romney, Ensign, Aug. 2005, 4)
• “Shunryu Suzuki’s instructions on how to meditate are simple: Sit with your spine straight, your shoulders relaxed, and your chin pulled in, “as if you were supporting the sky with your head.” Follow your breath with your mind as it moves in and out like a swinging door. Don’t try to stop your thinking. If a thought arises, let it come, then let it go and return to watching your breath. The idea is not to try to control your mind but to let thoughts rise and fall naturally over and over again. After some practice, the thoughts will start to float by like passing clouds, and their power to dominate consciousness will diminish.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 723-29
• “For me, the nerves usually kick into high gear in the middle of the night. I’ll sleep for a few hours, then—bang!—my brain is up and spinning. “Should I have done this, should I have done that? God, what a terrible call in the fourth quarter. Maybe I should have called a different play?” And so on. Sometimes I have to sit and meditate for a long time before the noise settles down and I can go back to sleep.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty)  Page 333
• “Easy to spot a yellow car when you are always thinking of a yellow car. Easy to spot opportunity when you are always thinking of opportunity. Easy to spot reasons to be mad when you are always thinking of being mad. You become what you constantly think about. Watch yourself.” Seneca