Mind Quotes - Page 58

The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.

We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our minds left behind in battle.

The body can do incredible things as long as the mind supports it.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

Let the dataset change your mindset

God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it's not likely that, like some painter, He conjured up an image from a similar image, having seen beforehand things which His own one mind did not write.

I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

If we set our minds, we can achieve anything.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

I'm always trying to get my mind at peace. I know I hit my best when everything is chill.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.

Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard, never get muddled. They are able to comprehend suffering, and ultimately will understand Dharma. Then, they will understand the books they read.

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.

How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless.