Mind Quotes - Page 204

The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.

I'll walk up to a woman, I'll say the first thing that comes to mind: 'Hey, you hungry?'

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me, how could I possibly belong any place else?

Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t

Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of though within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.