Mind Quotes
Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.
There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.
Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.
When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free.
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.
If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.
When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.
As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.
The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.
Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy.
I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.
He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.
I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind
When we create peace, and harmony, and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.
When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.
