Mind Quotes - Page 141

To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart.

Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened.

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.'

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

The whole path of mindfulness is this: Whatever you are doing, be aware of it.

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.