Quotes About Mind

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself. To pass from the soft and airy arcades of the mind to the demands of a graceless body always grasping for one thing or another is in any case a surrender:

How amazing that you can think you are experiencing a profound happening, almost like a miracle--and then you realize that you just made it that way in you mind

Like the expanse of space, the mind [in its intrinsic nature] transcends intellect. Let it remain in its relaxed nature, without directing or settling it, for mind without a manipulated focus represents Mah?mudr?; By deepening intimacy with it, one will attain supreme enlightenment.

All afflictions and deficiencies of life originate from the mind's attachment and clinging.

Every appearance or sound is like an illusion, mirage, or reflection; It is substance without the mark of reality. The mind that perceives such illusion is like space.

All appearances and sound vibrations are like an illusion, a mirage, or a reflection; They are substances without the marks of reality. The mind that cognizes illusion is also like space; Without center or boundary, it is beyond intellectual conception.

But for its designation the mind is empty and nonconceptual, which means Mah?mudr?. It is empty from the beginning, like space. The essence of mind is unborn [emptiness] and is detached from any substantive reality. Like space, it is all-pervasive. Neither transferring nor transforming, it has always been empty and selfless from the very beginning.

Space is designated as empty, yet its exact nature cannot be verbalized. Similarly the mind is designated as luminously clear, yet its exact nature is empty, with no ground for definition. Thus the self-nature of mind is and has been from the very beginning like that of space.

The primordial purity of mind is of the nature of space; There is nothing one can receive or reject.

Just as a crow that flies from a sail returns to it after circling and soaring, so a passionate mind that pursues the trail of thought returns to the primordial purity of mind.

The mind in its great sublime bliss is nondual, being neither self nor others, for it perceives intrinsic reality, which is before one, behind one, and around one in all the ten directions.

Computers make me totally blank out.

We already use catchwords as substitutes for thinking, thereby limiting our vocabulary along with the use of our brains. In

Chesterton says that thinking is the hardest work in the world. And hard work, he says, is repugnant to our nature.

In short, our journalists do not realise that the human race has any respect for coherency of mind. It is not strange that their world has also lost all respect for that other sort of coherency which was called integrity.

An open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth.3 The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth.

The thing I like most about time is that it's not real. It's all in the head. Sure, it's a useful trick if you wanna meet someone at a specific place in the universe to have tea or coffee. But that's all it is, a trick. There's no such thing as the past, it exists only in the memory. There's no such thing as the future, it exists only in our imagination. If our watches were truly accurate the only thing they would ever say is now.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.