Quotes About Mind

Our devotion to a teacher has nothing to do with his or her lifestyle or worldly accomplishments. It's their state of mind, the quality of their heart that we resonate with. When it comes to my teacher Chögyam Trungpa, he was so outrageous in his behavior that I could never model myself after him. But I do try to model myself on his way of being. He showed me by his example that we can rouse ourselves fearlessly and encourage one another to be sane.

The mind is always seeking zones of safety, and these zones of safety are continually falling apart.

The state of nowness is available in that moment of squeeze. In that awkward, ambiguous moment is our own wisdom mind. Right there in the uncertainty of everyday chaos is our own wisdom mind.

Emotions cannot take off and escalate if the mind is steady.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.

Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.

Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

He who fears alcohol MUST also fear ANGER, for anger is more powerful and dangerous than the alcohol.

Have you ever realised that if a person can make you angry, that person actually controls you.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.

They said" Your Anger could Destroy you.." Even if my Brain designed it to Destroy my enemy.

Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

A man's mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.