Mind Quotes - Page 26

Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.

An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.

Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Those who own much have much to fear.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light. In helping others to succeed I shall find my own prosperity. In the welfare of others I shall find my own well-being. I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am tireless; I am beyond body thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.