Thought

Man is a multitude of thoughts,
even by himself,
I feel I've company around,
when I am most alone.

-Mirza Ghalib

Thoughts which come on dove-like footsteps rule the world.

-Unknown

One dwells 

on the road of stillness.

Thought has no fixed abode but contentment.

Wherever a person's thoughts are, there they are.
Let a person think holy thoughts,
and he will be in a holy place.
-Nachman of Bratslaw

A beautiful thought shut up within you,
which you do not express though you perceive it,
illuminates you like a flame inside a transparent vase.
-Maurice Maeterlinck

Thoughts think themselves.

-Zen Saying

They put their thoughts
between themselves and the center.
-Stephen Mitchell

It is silly to be chasing a thought
unless it is to its Source!
-Kenneth G. Mills

Nothing divides one so much as thought.

-R. H. Blythe

A single disturbed thought
creates ten thousand distractions.
-Ryokan

Not allowing a single indefinite or factitious thought.
-Fernando Pessoa

A foolish passing thought makes one an ordinary man,
while an enlightened second thought makes one a buddha.
-Hui Neng

One enlightened thought and you're a Buddha.

One ordinary thought and you're again a deluded person.

-Dogen

Thinking of anything other than God
is what creates sorrow.
-Ananadamayi Ma

Not a single path
Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.
-Philip James Bailey

When you think right,
nothing can go wrong.
Write this on your mind.
-Paramananda

Mystics will - rather than know - their thoughts.
-Constantin Brunner

His thought pure power of light.
-Lascelles Abercrombie

Thought cannot exist without consciousness

But consciousness does not need thought.

-Eckhart Tolle

Thoughts think themselves.

-Buddhist Saying

Thought is the index of the mind. 
When a thought arises mind is inferred. 
In the absence of thought, there can be no mind. 
Therefore mind is nothing but thought. 
Thought is itself mind. 
-Advaita Bodha Deepika

To observe your thoughts
is the first step in understanding them
and, ultimately taking charge of them.
-Dadi Janki

Every time a thought arises, throw it away.
-Daito

When we think, we think of something.
Thinking of something means grasping that something with thought.
However, during zazen we open the hand of thought that is trying to grasp something,
and simply refrain from grasping.
This is letting go of thoughts.
-Kosho Uchiyama

Don't chase after thoughts and don't push them away.

Let them come in and go out like a swinging door.

-Jakuso Kwong

If a thought arises, it arises out of yourself and dissolves into yourself.

there is no basic view, meditation or instruction superior to this.

-Vairotsana

When thoughts arise,
instead of regarding them as faults,
recognize them to be empty
and leave them just as they are.
-Gyalwa Gotsangpa

Your only concern should be,
As thought follows thought,
To avoid clinging to any of them.
-Dogen

It is also said,
"If we are aware of a thought at the moment it arises,
then through that awareness, it will vanish."
-Chinul

The thoughts are like clouds;
when the clouds have cleared,
the moon appears.
The moon of eternal truth is the original face.
-Daito

Thinking must reach the end of thought
before the next faculty takes over.
-Christmas Humphreys

Attaching Thought, the mind,
to Nothingness, the center of creation.
-David A. Cooper

What need is there for any thinking 
for those who in the thought-free bliss of Self-Awareness, live their lives? 
All they experience is bright stillness. 
In this supreme state, there is no 'other' and nothing to gain.
-Sri Muruganar

Step aside from all thinking

and there is nowhere you can't go.

-Seng-ts'an

If you can smash through a single thought,
Then all deluded thinking will suddenly be stripped off.
You will feel
Like a flower in the sky that casts no shadows,
Like a bright sun emitting boundless light,
Like a limpid pot, transparent and clear.
-Han Shan Te-Ch'ing