Quotes About Mind

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.