Quotes About Mind

Is my mind closed? No. It's wide open. I'm always waiting.

Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind struggles to remain clear.

I think that everything that happens to you stays in you, even if it stays in a part of your mind where you can't find it. That's why you should never try to forget when people urge you to.

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.

Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.

My mind is the pendant, creativity is the chain

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us.

The archaeology of grief is not ordered. It is more like earth under a spade, turning up things you had forgotten. Surprising things come to light: not simply memories, but states of mind, emotions, older ways of seeing the world.

What happens to the mind after bereavement makes no sense until later... what the mind does after losing one's father isn't just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.

What happens to the mind after bereavement makes no sense until later. Even as I watched I'd half-realised Prideaux was a figure I'd picked out for a father. But what I should have realised, too, on those northern roads, is that what the mind does after losing one's father isn't just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.

The American writer and ecologist Aldo Leopold once wrote that falconry was a balancing act between wild and tame–not just in the hawk, but inside the heart and mind of the falconer. That is why he considered it the perfect hobby. I am starting to see the balance is righting, now, and the distance between Mabel and me increasing. I see, too, that her world and my world are not the same, and some part of me is amazed that I ever thought they were.

That is why the girl who was me when I was small loved watching birds. She made herself disappear, and then in the birds she watched, took flight. It was happening now. I had put myself in the hawk's wild mind to tame her, and as the days passed in the darkened room my humanity was burning away.

So often we see solitary contemplation as simply the correct way to engage with nature. But it is always a political act, bringing freedom from the pressures of other minds, other interpretations, other consciousnesses competing with your own.

Hatred (is) a cancer in the mind. Hatred (is) an acid eating away the soul.

There was such an interesting exchange rate in this woman's mind...whenever she remembered anyone giving her anything, they only gave a very little and kept the lion's share to themselves. But whenever she remembered giving anyone anything she gave a lot, so much it almost ruined her.

What I mean to say is that a whole lot of technically impossible things are always trying to happen to us, appear to us, talk to us, show us pictures, or just say hi, and you can't pay attention to all of it, so I just pick the nearest technically impossible thing and I let it happen.

An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines which the course sets forth.

Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable.

4 Los pensamientos se extienden al compartirse, pues no se pueden perder.

This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.

Son únicamente tus pensamientos los que te causan dolor. 2 Nada externo a tu mente puede herirte o hacerte daño en modo alguno. 3 No hay causa más allá de ti mismo que pueda abatirse sobre ti y oprimirte. 4 Nadie, excepto tú mismo, puede afectarte. 5 No hay nada en el mundo capaz de hacerte enfermar, de entristecerte o de debilitarte. 6 Eres tú el que tiene el poder de dominar todas las cosas que ves reconociendo simplemente lo que eres.

Santo hermano mío, piensa en esto por un momento: el mundo que ves no hace nada. 2 No tiene efectos. 3 No es otra cosa que la representación de tus pensamientos. 4 Y será completamente distinto cuando elijas cambiar de parecer y decidas que lo que realmente deseas es el júbilo de Dios.

El propósito de nuestras prácticas de hoy es acercarnos a la luz que mora en nosotros. 2 Tomamos rienda de nuestros pensamientos errantes y dulcemente los conducimos de regreso allí donde pueden armonizarse con los pensamientos que compartimos con Dios. 3 No vamos a permitir que sigan descarriados. 4 Dejaremos que la luz que mora en nuestras mentes los guíe de regreso a su hogar.