Mind Quotes - Page 40

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Nature is surely the glorified face of God. See the beauty about you and ... see the manifestation of the infinite Mind.

I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.

Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they'd rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice.

The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being.

Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.