May/June 2000
Articles on the theme "Food For Thought"
Think of These Things
compiled by Bob Gonzalez
Some thoughts on thought. A compilation
of quotations.
Feed the Mind -- Enthusiastically!
by Charles Larsen
Opening the mind to new ideas and experiences
-- an important factor in our growth.
Thought Pollution!
by Dr. Audrey Craft Davis
Thoughts as 'things'. How to control
our own thoughts and the thoughts of others.
Why Kids Kill
by Nancy L. Buchanan
The theta brain and how it makes children
more vulnerable to impressions of violence.
Water For Your Thoughts
by Ernesto J. Fernandez
Your brain may be suffering from dehydration
without you knowing it. The signs and what to do about it.
Improving Brain Function
by Chuck Homuth
Some of the healthy foods and supplements
that can help improve brain function.
Thinking About Thought
by David Findlay
Of consciousness, thought and telepathy.
The Right To Die?
by Constance Snow
Should we feed the body when there
is no consciousness? A discussion about the right to die.
Brain Food
by Marty Kliesh
Nutrients that improve the functioning
of the brain.
Spiritual Tools of Thought
by Rev. Pat Cross
Of self-induced spiritual indigestion
and true spiritual food for thought.
A Diet For Mental Health?
by Patrick Plaskett
What we put in our minds is just as
important as the food we eat. What a healthy mental diet consists of.
Other Feature Articles
Natural Health Q & A
by Lisa Raphael
Of holistic healing. The meaning of
psychosomatic. Cellular memory. The difference between 'transformational'
and 'transformative'.
2000 & Beyond!
by David Findlay (editor), Carol Withrow (contributing writer)
What is... GE (Genetically Engineered) Food?
by Laurie Powers
What GE, GM or GMO means. The risks
and what can be done to limit them.
Minerals from Mother Earth
by Judy Power
Features stones for May and June: anyolite
and fluorite.
Think of These Things
Compiled by Bob Gonzalez
THE BEGINNING OF THOUGHT
St. Paul: Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.
Descartes: I think, therefore I am.
Aldous Huxley: My existence does not depend on the fact that I am thinking; it depends on the fact that, whether I know it or not, I am being thought - being thought by a mind much greater than the consciousness which I ordinarily identify with myself.
Plato: Wonder is what the philosopher endures most; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
THINK FOR YOURSELF
Edith Hamilton: The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'
Josiah Royce: Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.
Doris Lessing: Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Chinese proverb: To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
AN OPEN MIND
James Dewar: Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
John Keats: The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
Samuel Butler: An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty.
THE NECESSITY OF THOUGHT
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: Thinking leads men to knowledge. One may see and hear and read and learn as much as he pleases; he will never know any of it except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind.
Martin H. Fisher: Knowledge is the process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Henri Poincare: To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
THINKING MAKES IT SO
Marcus Aurelius: Our life is what our thoughts make it.
William Shakespeare (Hamlet): There's nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
John Milton: The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Mohandas K. Gandhi: A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.
RELIGION AND THOUGHT
G.K. Chesterton: Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
Voltaire: There are no sects in geometry.
Anonymous: Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
WRONG THINKING
William James: A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Edward de Bono: Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
St. Augustine: Thou hast commanded that an ill-regulated mind should be its own punishment.
Eric Hoffer: Much of man's thinking is propaganda of his appetites.
G.K. Chesterton: The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane.
Voltaire: Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
THOUGHT IN FOCUS
Samuel Johnson: When a man knows he will be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Joubert: The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
THE BUSINESS OF THINKING
Henry Ford: Thinking is the hardest work there is , which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
Elbert Hubbard: Thinking is a brain exercise - and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
Victor Hugo: Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Robert Frost: All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
THOUGHT AND ACTION
Henri Amiel: A capacity for self-reflection - for withdrawal from the outward to the inward - is in fact the condition for all noble and useful activity.
Isocrates: Do not be hasty in deliberation, but waste no time in carrying out what you have decided to do.
Sigmund Freud: Thought is behaviour in rehearsal.
Louis Pasteur: In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
SOLACE OF THOUGHT
Jules Renard: To think is to search for clearings in a wood.
Horace Walpole: This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
George Santayana: That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
Bob Gonzalez is a freelance writer/photographer who with
his family manages Ansley's Natural Marketplaces in Tampa, FL. (813) 239-2700.
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