Mind Quotes - Page 63

In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that--don't be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain. Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet waste."To use your head you have to go out of your mind" "You are a God, act like one"

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10. My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'.

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

The world you think of is in your own mind.

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.

...realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making... All wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind- thought - is the only creator. The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstance.

Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind goes on dividing everything into polarities, opposites. Nothing is opposite in existence; every contradiction is only apparent. Deep down all contradictions are meeting together.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

THE TOTALLY AWAKENED warrior can freely utilize all elements contained in heaven and earth. The true warrior learns how to correctly perceive the activity of the universe and how to transform martial techniques into vehicles of purity, goodness, and beauty. A warrior’s mind and body must be permeated with enlightened wisdom and deep calm.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.