Mind Quotes - Page 85

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also. This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

As we live in the Spirit, we live in the process of God’s mind

Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to.

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

Poverty is just a state of mind.

If our mind is in conflict, not balanced with our body and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. Only if we have unity within ourselves, we can create unity in the world around us. You can't give something you don't have, even if you have all good intentions

The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.