State Of Mind Quotes

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion .

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.

I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.

We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind.

The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.

In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind.

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.

I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters.

One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.

Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go into higher states of mind.

Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.

When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.

Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. This brings you into a lower state of attention.

Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.

In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.

Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.

Tantric Zen is a state of mind

Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.

Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur.

You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one state of mind to another.

You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.

Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other than the state of mind that you're in.

When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.