The Mind Quotes
If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.
If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.
Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.
The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.
In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.
When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view.
Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.
Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.
Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.
The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be.
In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.
Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.
This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try to deliberately affect another person's mind.
317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.
My girlfriend knows that if I'm acting weird at home to go to one of my shows to see what's on my mind.
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
I'll always be grateful for the dream season of 1986. In a corner of my mind I will stand forever with my bat cocked, waiting for the two-one pitch from Calvin Schiraldi.
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.
What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.
The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.
Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?
Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind-- More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed.
Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.