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Mind Quotes - Page 24

There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and companionship which are mine by divine right.

Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.57, Hampton Roads Publishing

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

"Interview: Architect Tadao Ando on the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth". Interview with Peter Simek, www.dmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.

Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.83, Shambhala Publications

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.378

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.214

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

"Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.