Quotes About Mind

these absurd mental fluctuations that I call me.

No one ever teaches us how to change from an angry to a non-angry person. No one ever tells us that anger causes 'you' suffering and is not helpful. That it stops 'your' peace of mind and everybody else's. It's never talked about in a practical way, only a moralistic way.

A woman shaman, like a spider spinning, must learn to lead from the womb. To move our attention from the head to the belly, from the mind to the body, a woman must learn to read the signals and to trust them. Otherwise she'll never be sure about the difference between her intuition and those fearful little voices in her head that tell her to be cautious, stop, don't and so on.

People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power of the human mind. that's the power of thought, which is nothing more- and nothing less- than energy. And when you have a particularly powerful mind, extraordinary things can happen.

Memories are stronger than we think.

Accept this reality: It is your mind's job to think—24/7. And it's not going to stop just because you sit down for 8 minutes and tell it to "Shut up, already!" But the good news is this: When you stop trying to stop your thoughts, you begin to surpass them. This can lead you to the peace you thought you could only achieve when you stopped thinking!

In Trump's mind, the problem with federal agencies was not just that they overreached and were weaponized, but that their folds of bureaucracy led to incompetency.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Claude's mother could be frightfully stubborn once she made up her mind to something. In her own way Anne was as private a person as little David; in the end she would do exactly what she wanted to do.

Perhaps it is a very good thing that we cannot wholly rule our minds and that they force on us ideas and images which we would ignobly prefer to dismiss; thus truth makes its way in spite of egotism and unconsciousness.

Books are left untouched. Fanaticism became our trait.. Now more than ever we let others feed our minds and we became the zombie society walking around without purpose, without care, without vision.

I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy, why not make up happy shit?

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.

Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.