Mind Quotes - Page 124

Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness.

I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.

If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind.

The eyes envy the mind.

The energies are what blows my mind. They drag everything out of you, and sometimes your own soul. You really have to mentally be stable, or else you'll lose it.

In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind.

Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.

Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Keep in mind God's precept that states, 'Judge not, and you will not be judged' (Lk. 6:37), and in no way meddle in the lives of others.