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Quotes About Mind

Telepathic power and empathy are two versions of the same thing.
~ Philip K. Dick
So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago. from "Why Did I Dream of You Last Night?
~ Philip Larkin
Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone.
~ Philip Pullman
The mind has plenty of ways of preventing you from writing, and paralysing self-consciousness is a good one. The only thing to do is ignore it, and remember what Vincent van Gogh said in one of his letters about the painter's fear of the blank canvas - the canvas, he said, is far more afraid of the painter.
~ Philip Pullman
How can the weather have a state of mind?" said Papadimitriou. The gyptian said, "You think the weather is only out there? It's in here too," and tapped his head. "So do you mean that the weather's state of mind is just our state of mind?" "Nothing is just anything," the gyptian replied, and would say no more.
~ Philip Pullman
So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. These beings weren't human, but they were people, she told herself; it's not them, they're us. They
~ Philip Pullman
Then excuse me, Miss Silver, but they have separated their intelligences from their other faculties. And that is not an intelligent thing to do.
~ Philip Pullman
they have separated their intelligences from their other faculties. And that is not an intelligent thing to do.
~ Philip Pullman
She thought thought that without noticing that she'd thought it, and she soon forgot it, and only remembered it much later.
~ Philip Pullman
It was one of those moments when we suddenly recall a dream that we've unaccountably forgotten, and back in a flood comes all the emotion we felt in our sleep
~ Philip Pullman
Lyra's mind was full of dark questions that flew around like witches, swift and untouchable, and somewhere, just beyond where she could reach, there was a glory and a thrill which she didn't understand at all. But it gave her a surge of strength
~ Philip Pullman
Il n'y a pas d'ailleurs
~ Philip Pullman
To have enslaved America with this hocuspocus! To have captured the mind of the world's greatest nation without uttering a single word of truth! Oh, the pleasure we must be affording the most malevolent man on earth! Philip Roth (2004-09-06T16:00:00+00:00). The plot against America (Kindle Locations 4887-4888). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
~ Philip Roth
True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it - either that or you were sunk. You had to work hard to prevent your mind from sabotaging you by its looking hungrily back at the superabundant past.
~ Philip Roth
It's no picnic up there in the egosphere.
~ Philip Roth
Ma il pericolo dell'odio è che, una volta cominciato a coltivarlo, hai cento volte più di quanto ti aspettassi. Una volta cominciato, non ti fermi più. Non conosco nulla di più difficile da controllare dell'odio. E' più facile smettere di bere che smettere di odiare. Ed è tutto dire.
~ Philip Roth
To have enslaved America with this hocuspocus! To have captured the mind of the world's greatest nation without uttering a single word of truth! Oh, the pleasure we must be affording the most malevolent man on earth!
~ Philip Roth
Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.
~ David Foster Wallace
Lo de «aprender a pensar» en realidad quiere decir ejercer cierto control sobre cómo y qué piensa uno.
~ David Foster Wallace
Según los Vedas, la sede del pensamiento, las acciones y los deseos no es la mente, sino el corazón humano.
~ David Frawley
Los Vedas nos dicen que esta desconexión de la mente y el corazón es la causa de todo el sufrimiento que vemos hoy en el mundo. Los científicos creen que el estrés provoca el ochenta por ciento de las enfermedades que padecemos, pero lo que hace que el estrés sea tan predominante es la falta de silencio. Tal como señala el Dr. Frawley, este es el motivo por el que resulta tan importante que incluyamos la práctica de la meditación en nuestra vida.
~ David Frawley
Pitta types need to remain flexible and soft throughout their lives because if excess Pitta is not softened, it can become stiff, hot, and too tight. It
~ David Frawley
This reflects four primary goals for an ayurvedic asana practice: 1. To balance the doshas 2. To improve the structural condition of the body 3. To facilitate the movement and development of prana 4. To calm and energize the mind
~ David Frawley
If concentrating on the Divine or the universal in the form of a rock aids in preparing the mind for meditation, such a rock is a great dharma, a noble truth.
~ David Frawley