Quotes About Mind

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.