Mind Quotes - Page 115

What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.

No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.

The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.

Meditation is bringing the mind home.

The devil will endeavor to fascinate through the eyes and through the mind.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

A more diverse force is a stronger force. A more diverse mindset makes you a stronger force. If you have the same outlook, if you have the same mindset, you don't get much innovation.

History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

As the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless in the beauty of things visible the Creator rather than the creature is loved; for, when He says, 'you shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and from all your mind, and from all your strength' (Mt. 22:37), He wishes us in nothing to loosen ourselves from the bonds of His love. And when He links the love of our neighbor also to this command, He enjoins on us the imitation of His own goodness, that we should love what He loves and do what He does.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.