Mind Quotes - Page 41

If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts which come and go obeying their own laws, not yours. They dominate you only because you are interested in them.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.

The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness.

Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn't appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen 'hides' in plain view, so happiness 'hides' in all experience.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.

Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.