No Mind Quotes
There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.
I don't care how far we've come with "women's liberation," with all these things. In a man's mind, he still needs to be the support of his family. He needs to hold up the world.
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.
Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.
'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.
All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.
Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.
We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.
I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.
We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.