Quotes About Mind

We translated the basic Hindu teaching that everything is illusion into the modern neurological truth that everything is a figment of your own brain.

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key -- it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior.

Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.

Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart.

Swordplay is not about strength.  It is about speed and agility, and the ability to read the mind of your opponent so you know what thrust he will make as soon as he knows himself.

Thankfully, as you will see, the two facts that, (1) you are upset by your bad thoughts, and (2) that you have never acted on them, are sure signs that you will never act on them.

The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Possession of anything begins in the mind.

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

I'm not sure whether I'm losing my grip on reality," he said. "Or if reality is losing its grip on us.

There are few things we can control; our emotions are not among them.

Carl Jung: "Life is an experiment in consciousness that most people fail.

In one second of time, the conscious mind utilizes two thousand neurons. In the same second, you subconscious mind utilizes four billion neurons

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.

For Every worry under the sun there is a remedy or there is none; if there is a remedy hurry and find it. If there is none never mind it.

Our Reason walks with weary, bruiséd feet. But Intuition soars with wings complete. The conscious mind is not so much the man As that subconscious force that knows Life's plan.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.