Quotes About Mind

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

Bad feelings have a life of their own.

Your mind lives in fear and regret but your body can only live right now, in this moment. So, take some deep breaths and live in your body. It's a safer place to be than in your head.

intellect is only one facet of the mind, and that beyond it is a universal intelligence which is freely available to each of us. If we're willing to put down the book entitled My Mind, we can wander around the whole library and even access the thoughts of God.

Personal ideals and values can result in general happiness for society as a whole, if we become fully engaged with the righteousness of the soul mind as the core power of Self.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

The aphorism that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem is usually true. And remember, changing one's mind in midair rarely works out.

There's an amazing release that comes when you drive coast to coast, when you plug one ocean into another in your mind. And the wake of your travel fills with a kind of awe and love for everyone and everything and every animal and every roadside diner you've seen between the two.

You must keep active mentally as well as physically. I always try to do that.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

I wish it were as easy to stop hating as it was to start.

the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." —H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu

For a moment something struggles inside her. Then her mind empties and she surrenders. Fighting fate is too difficult. She must save herself to fight whatever fate throws up.

Farley goes quiet. I let the silence build until it fills every corner of the room. It leaks into his ears and his chest and his bladder and his bowels and every dark place in his mind. Very few people are comfortable with silence. It's one thing to be on a plane or in a train carriage or in a waiting room and to ignore those around you, but not when you know someone is expecting you to answer.

The greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to break apart and compartmentalise. It's how we juggle multiple demands, and how we cope with pain and trauma.

She has a first-class mind and third-class morals, which is exactly what I need right now

When we have no hope for healing, our minds and bodies react in accordance with our thoughts and feelings.

I am not suggesting that single cells are conscious. I am suggesting that they may have some type of processing that is necessary or similar to the processing that results in conscious experience.

This incessant interplay between cognition and feelings, which is to say between cortical and subcortical modules, produces what we call consciousness.

Plainly stated, I believe consciousness is an instinct.

chapter, however, the modern perspective is that brains enable minds, and that YOU is your vastly parallel and distributed brain without a central command center. There is no ghost in the machine, no secret stuff that is YOU. That YOU that you are so proud of is a story woven together by your interpreter module to account for as much of your behavior as it can incorporate, and it denies or rationalizes the rest.

It was also the test that produced the most astounding observation of all. The left, talking brain didn't seem to miss the right brain, and vice versa. It didn't just not miss it—it didn't even remember it or the functions it had performed, as if the right hemisphere had never existed. For me, this phenomenon is the single most important fact students of mind/brain research must take into account.