Mind Quotes - Page 183

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.

Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.

Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.

The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.

It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.

But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.

Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

The heart cannot exalt in what the mind rejects.

When you move with this thought that 'I want', then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that 'I have received', then you are content.

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.