Quotes About Mind

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

Obama is attacking every business. He is attacking every employer and employee. He is attacking the system. He has a perverse mind.

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

There is an economy in your mind

Clear mind + clear plan = clear outcomes.

Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.

Formula One is a mind game, no question. You have to think so hard sometimes smoke comes out your ears! And if you don't keep your head in gear the car will overtake you

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Chance favours the trained mind.

the difference between what is neurosis and what is wisdom is very hard to perceive, because somehow the energy underlying both of them is the same.

The mind is always seeking zones of safety, and these zones of safety are continually falling apart. Then we scramble to get another zone of safety back together again.

Second there is relative bodhichitta, our ability to keep our hearts and minds open to suffering without shutting down.

The third kind of loneliness is avoiding unnecesssary activities. When we're lonely in a "hot" way, we look for something to save us; we look for a way out. We get this queasy feeling that we call loneliness, and our minds just go wild trying to come up with companions to save us from despair. That's called unnecessary activity. It's a way of keeping ourselves busy so we don't have to feel any pain.

As swans swim on the lake and vultures roam in the charnel ground, you can let your mind rest in its natural state.

Tu mente es como un cubo de basura chiflado que grita».

Rikpa literally means "intelligence" or "brightness." Behind all the planning and worrying, behind all the wishing and wanting, picking and choosing, the unfabricated, wisdom mind of rikpa is always here. Whenever we stop talking to ourselves, rikpa is continually here.

Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The offcenter, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, openended state of affairs

No lasting happiness comes from being caught in this cycle of attraction and aversion. We can never get life to work out so that we eliminate everything we fear and end up with all the goodies. Therefore the warrior-bodhisattva cultivates equanimity, the vast mind that doesn't narrow reality into for and against, liking and disliking.