Quotes About Mind

Abiding in the space of the nature of mind, we not only are free, we are freedom.

When we think of an experience as "only a dream" it is less "real" to us. It loses power over us—power that it only had because we gave it power—and can no longer disturb us and drive us into negative emotional states.

Dreams arise from the same karmic traces that govern our waking experiences. If we axe too distracted to penetrate the fantasies and delusions of the moving mind during the day, we will most likely be bound by the same limitations in dream.

Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain," he indicated my head with his index finger, "the Communists won't ever be able to take away from you.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

I tell him of damnation, but I doubt he fears anything but the darkness in his own mind.

Now I had new fears; not of him but of myself and of the drugging rule my body could exert over my mind. ...I was lost to hungers I had not known I possessed.

our faculties seem to be making war upon us, as if they were resentful of the war made upon them by our vices.

I know, too, that our progress has nothing to do with the body, which is the thing that matters least.

Children's minds need not innately embody language structures, if languages embody the predispositions of children's minds!

You can be your own biggest enemy or your own greatest ally.

Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You're on your own side, and you are your own strength.

I feel my body, my mind, weighted down — all is heavy — but my blood, my inner fire, my passion, the little unburdened kid in me, patiently waits to burst free. Some of us die never having burst.

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do.

The first glass is a sedative, the second a psychologist, the third glass an excuse, and the fourth a lobotomy.

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.

Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.

The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you.

Sometimes it's harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can't pretend you're not at home.

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.

You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden.