Mind Quotes - Page 209

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty. Emotions to a world of intimacy. It takes a universe to make a child both in outer form and inner spirit. It takes a universe to educate a child. A universe to fulfill a child.

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.

We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.

Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)

When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

Generate so much loving energy that people want to just come and hang out with you. And when they show up, bill them!

It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.

I think more like a quantum Buddhist, in that there is a universal proto-conscious mind which we access, and can influence us. But it actually exists at the funda-mental level of the universe, at the Planck scale.

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.