Quotes About Mind

Many of the peculiarities attributed to creative persons are really just ways to protect the focus of concentration so that they may lose themselves in the creative process. Distractions interrupt flow, and it may take hours to recover the peace of mind one needs to get on with the work. The more ambitious the task, the longer it takes to lose oneself in it, and the easier it is to get distracted.

But personalizing patterns of action helps to free the mind from the expectations that make demands on attention and allows intense concentration on matters that count.

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

If rules make a framework for the mind to climb about in, why should the mind not climb right out?

The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.

You use the word "Infinity" very glibly.... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that infinity is a purely local phenomenon. You can turn over a stone and find it crawling there. Or you can make it yourself out of whatever materials are at hand.

The peace you seek is there, it's there between all the traffic in your mind, stop and rest for peace will find you if you let it.

Reality is not what your eyes show your mind, but what your mind creates for your eyes to see. You're not limited by logic, the

Dot 1: Time and space (and therefore matter) are illusionary.

Reality is not what your eyes show your mind, but what your mind creates for your eyes to see.

The thinking you, as you have sensed, is not a product of your brain; it is channeled by your brain.

You have inner senses: intellect, intuition, and feelings.

On the occasions fear or worry overcome you, relax! I used to panic whenever negativity coursed through my mind, thinking I was doomed because of this principle of thoughts become things, but I discovered something long ago when I thought I was being fired at PW: while there are indeed times in all our lives when we simply cannot stop our runaway trains of fear or negativity, at all times we are free and able to simultaneously start a new train running.

Suddenly cancer can be seen in a different light—as an adventure into healing one's body, mind, and spirit.

sometimes I struggle to get the thoughts out of my head because they are stuck behind one another like cars in a traffic jam.

You've changed my mind,' she said shyly. I noted her curious choice of words but refused to let her say any more. Additional conversation would only confuse the matter. If I could change her mind without knowing it, I could just as easily change it back again by accident.

I know he's right to be worried about us, because I'm worried about us too. I don't understand how relationships work. I don't know how they survive. It seems every day something new arrives to threaten your peace of mind.

It was impossible for the human mind to suspect that it was itself the sole creator of the divine world. It found the divine world before it; it found it as history, as tradition, as a sentiment, as a habit of thought; and it necessarily made it the object of its loftiest speculations. Thus was born metaphysics, and thus were developed and perfected the divine ideas, the basis of Spiritualism.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

He who avoids misunderstandings, Amused at the play of his own mind, Is ever joyful.

I was having a race conversation in my head.

In addition, the modern mind often tends toward humanism, making humans and human standards the highest object of value and concern.