Mind Quotes - Page 123

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

Small things amuse small minds.

To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

If we can be cheered up by positive images we can be depressed by negative ones. As long as we accept images as realities we are in that trap, because you can't control the images.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.

Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.

To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.