The Mind Quotes
The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.
Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, "Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette."
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.
Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.
In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.
By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!
Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.
Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.
A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.
You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind is not conscious but we are conscious of the mind.
The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.
To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.
the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.
For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.
Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist
When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you're just so much stronger, especially in really intense stressful situations.
Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.
Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.
In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.
By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.
There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?
Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.
Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.