Mind Quotes - Page 152

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable from it. I might show that it is fatal to religion and morality; that it tends to debase the mind, and corrupt its noblest springs of action. I might show that it relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape.

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it is immeasurably peaceful and, once stabilized through repeated experience, virtually unshakable. It's an experience of absolute well-being that radiates through all physical, emotional and mental states-even those that might ordinarily be labeled as unpleasant.

The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.'

I see you watching me like a hawk. I don't mind about the things you talk. But if you touch me something's got to give. I live the life I love and I love the life I live.

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. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego.

Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.

An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.

Your heart grows by giving out, but your mind grows by taking in; and both are necessary to a happy and balanced life of service.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.