Quotes About Mind

Is it necessary to believe in the existence of the six realms and the heavens and hells to be a Buddhist? Not necessarily. It is possible to interpret these as, perhaps, referring to other dimensions of existence, parallel universes, or simply states of mind.

De geest deinst terug voor zijn eigen afwezigheid, kan niet aan zichzelf denken als niet-denkend, de kilste leegte die er is.

I could feel the bitter tang of his nausea rising, the wild disorientation of a mind and body spinning our of control. May the Emperor forgive me, it was delicious. Any extremes of physical experience, even the most unpleasant, are so alien to me that I cherish them.

Wonder, as a point of concern, denies its own consideration. It has the remarkable capacity to hide in the midst of its revelation. Wonder, to preserve itself, withdraws. It withdraws from the mind, from the willing mind, which would make of mystery a category.

But when our faith causes us to check our brains at the door, we have fallen far from the God who gave us the capacity for reason.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

Even if this spring the dappled leaves should shelter our minds from the moon's pale echo we would still remember how once they were sheltered by our skulls only from the day's sun and the night's stars and never from what we feared and what we remembered

memory is a faithless friend

Feel the flowing life energy." "Yesssssssssssssss…" "Can you see the universe unfolding in your mind?" Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

When the blood rushes to my head, it helps me think." Well, I know that blood rushing to your head doesn't help you grow hair, because Mr. Klutz had no hair on his head at all. He was bald as a balloon.

One of the most important jobs of the entrepreneur is to use his mind to create order, to organize information, and to separate fact from opinion or fiction. This requires time and time management.

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.

The mind can find the information so shocking or threatening that it rejects the truth of it, rendering the information nonsense. The brain then tries to make sense of the nonsense by filing it under comedy – just

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind. How true that is.

There was nothing of either fire or ice in it; only a tepid warmth, like lukewarm water that when you first stepped in felt comfortable to the skin, but if you stayed in too long would slowly sap the life from mind and body, leaving you numb, spent, incapable even of the few strokes necessary to keep your head above water.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

The subgenual prefrontal cortex (sgPFC) is actually a part of the brain that's responsible for our self-image. When you're in a calm, positive place, this section of your mind is relatively quiet. But when it gets stimulated, you start to think negative thoughts about yourself. In other words, controlling the impulses in your brain is an essential part of any mind/ body fitness plan. And how do you do it? Simply by spending a little time in nature.

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