Mind Quotes - Page 154

The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.

Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

Look after your wife; never mind yourself--she'll look after you.

That race you feel you are a part of is happening only in your mind.

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.

I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom's, 'No one has the right to beat you.' I take that to every venue that I'm in. She would say, 'Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?' I always try to keep that in mind.

You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight.

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that.

In terms of the 'S' word, that does not enter my mind. And it never has done. In terms of An Attempt. Because I am stronger than that. I might be a weak person, but I can take pain.

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.

If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say, "Oh, a little bit like this." In the beginning, there isn't even a theme. It's like getting the whole world at your feet - to empty your mind of everything that's ever happened before, to get an empty space.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

Stand guard at the portal of your mind.