What Is Mind Quotes
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind
Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help of creation, our own mind) before turning to God.
Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .
The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.
Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.
If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.
You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind
There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.
I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.
It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.
Believe it can be done. When you really believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it.
The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities
Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.
I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.
Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.
I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.
Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.
Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.
The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
The mind creates with thoughts and logic, but it sees with light. The heart creates with the emotions and feelings and dreaming, but it sees with darkness.
What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.
Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.
The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.