Mind Quotes - Page 14

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

When you hold an infant, hold him not just with your body, but with your mind and heart.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that this wherefrom it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern; others, the mind and still others, the pilot of the world. Trismegistus calls it a "visible God"; Sophocles' Electra, "that which gazes upon all things." And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your mind a blank all at once. So in the beginning try to prevent evil or idle thoughts by occupying your mind with the analysis of your own faults, or the contemplation of the Perfect Ones.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

I've been out there 3 days and I got shot at 3 times, Felt like every bullet hit me when they flew out each 9. I'll be happy when I wake up and I have a free mind.

I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.

Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.