Quotes About Mind

She was half watching, half musing. It was her constant state. Her eyes were keen and observant, but her inner mind took no notice of what she saw.

Instead of men kissing you, and touching you, they revealed their minds to you. It was great fun! But what cold minds!

Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword darkness. Cling like a bat and sway for ever swooning in the draughts of the darkness ---

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

sun is anti-thought

But so many people... have only got their minds tacked on to their physical corpses.

Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of the great desert tracts in his consciousness.

She had a curious, receptive mind, which found much pleasure and amusement in listening to other folk. She was clever in leading folk on to talk. She loved ideas, and was considered very intellectual. What she liked most of all was an argument on religion or philosophy or politics, with some educated man. This she did not often enjoy. So she always had people tell her about themselves, finding her pleasure so.

There was something I ought to remember: and yet I did not remember.

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply, but the mind drags in a filthy association. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God. We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their philosophy. Let us go on.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base, and must be left to the ancient worshippers of power, worship of Moloch. We do not worship power, in our enlightened souls. Power is degenerated to money and Napoleonic stupidity.

This Nature-sweet-and-pure business is only another effort at intellectualizing. Just an attempt to make all nature succumb to a few laws of the human mind.

was in the grip of his moral, mental being.

Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of the masters- penetrate deeply into a single form of practice.

No matter how compelling or beautiful they may be, words appeal in the main to the linear, thinking mind that thinks in words.

What is the significance of this? It was simply a demonstration of Parental Mind. The Tathagata did not do this in expectation of some reward or fame. He did it unconditionally, without thought of profit or gain.

before your mind starts to work and you want to run away, accept every moment as an opportunity presented to you to practice facing reality as it really is.

The heart is what is important. There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

Plato said that "the greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately"!

The rapidity with which we forget is astonishing. So

perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.