Quotes About Mind

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Some master meditators achieve a particularly concentrated state of mind, samadhi, in which their mind is capable of gaining profound insights into reality.

En el centro de todas las verdaderas enseñanzas del dharma está la comprensión de que el sufrimiento y la insatisfacción se originan en la forma en que tu mente responde y reacciona a las circunstancias de la vida, no en los mismos hechos de la vida.

Bruno's brain might have parachuted somewhere over the Atlantic.

You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his brain one inch out of the concrete of dogma. (p. 5)

Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.

It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

What does it remember like?

The world is a big place, he said, but so is the inside of an apartment!

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive and thinking is killing me

There was a single thought in my head: Keep thinking. Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive, and thinking is killing me. I think and think and think.

but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma's power to deform the mind and heart.

Our minds and hearts are well built to perform certain tasks, and poorly designed for others. We are good at things like calculating the path of a hurricane, and bad at things like deciding to get out of its way.

As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.

Words are the clothing of our thoughts.

They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse.

You, my friend, are society. So welcome to the club of community, and even though some may try to drown out other styles of discourse with shouts about personal rights, the community may have a thing or two to say, and it may say it a lot louder. After all, community can only progress when its individuals exercise higher moral choices, and community is sacrificed when individuals choose with only themselves in mind.

Yes, disability is terribly difficult and chronic pain can eat away at your peace of mind.