The Mind Quotes
The consciousness of the body is more powerful than the consciousness of the mind.
If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt.
Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.
He was protecting me with just the tips of his fingers, like five miniature copies of his heart touching my skin.
'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh, ' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'
I knew at that point I was more than capable of loving Jack - I was meant to.
Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories... as well as mine.
I wanted moments like this to last forever. If it couldn't, I wanted to play it on repeat so I wouldn't forget the details of every second.
Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be taken away.
Seeing’ two-dimensional images is therefore something that we learn to do
Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.
Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.
We can tell a lot about a creature's level of consciousness by understanding their perception of death.
If you could observe every thought in your brain the magnitude of it's vastness would drive you insane.
Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.
Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.
Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.
It is vital to see not only what Christianity asserts, but where its precepts came from – how they evolved from primitive, superstitious metaphysical claims into “Gospel Truth”.
The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.
In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.
You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects.
Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.
Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed – and that happened six full decades after his death.
That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.
The gospels, never meant to report, butrather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.
You are the only real authority in your life, but you yield that status to so many externals by believing in them, by having been punished or forced into accepting them.
Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it.
When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.
There is no other force, no other determining factor, no external cause to the cohesive unfolding of your life’s episodes – only your composite inner nature. Change that and you change your life.
Vocal cords are not rental units. No Hebrew prophet, nor Mohammed, nor any founder of any cult or religion ever spoke the words of anybody but themselves.
The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self.
It must be obvious that the Reality we all encounter only works one way, and it functions that way regardless of what the experiencer believes.
Whatever beliefs and definitions you hold will seem to be true.
Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.
Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in anindependent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements ofmind, made real.
Reality works in this fashion: what you hold in your mind – the self-image, hopes and expectations, world view, beliefs, fears, feelings and all else – becomes realized in your life, continuously.
Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute
So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather frominside out.
If you find that you “disagree” with something I’ve written, then you missed the point!!
So, am I some sort of Savior? Not hardly. Save yourself the worry about needing to be saved from anything.
As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are.
I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.
Through the many years of what I thought was 'searching', was really the process of 'awakening'.
Unless you change who you are now, you'll never get what you want. If you change who you are and how you are, then you’ll get what you want.