No Mind Quotes

We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.

That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer.

I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

Always gone but never hard to find.. And since you can't escape me, do I ever cross your mind?

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers'.

When the mind changes the outer expression must change to correspond. We are transferred by the renewing of our minds.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of though within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations.

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.

Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.

The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.