Quotes About Mind

Introspection is always retrospection

When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.

You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to meditate. It's not the end, it's the beginning.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.