Mind Quotes - Page 173

Something to keep in mind - it’s raining lightly. The infield could be very wet on ground balls.

Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.

Under pressure, you can win with your mind.

We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.

Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go... -- Tahar ben Jelloun

You’re worthy because the Great Spirit, or Universe, or God, or whatever you want to call a higher power, has put you on the earth at this time. There’s nothing else to think about! Since you’re as worthy as the next person, you’re as deserving to receive as anyone else. Anything else that your mind says around that is made up, non-supportive crappola!

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

When you are stressed on mind...to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind!

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

Great relationships are based on clarity, not mind-reading.

Free your mind from all that troubles you; God will take care of things. You will be unable to make haste in this (choice) without, so to speak, grieving the heart of God, because he sees that you do not honor him sufficiently with holy trust. Trust in him, I beg you, and you will have the fulfillment of what your heart desires.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.