Quotes About Mind

Although Erc was bitterly disappointed, there was another route to prestige. He possessed gifts of the mind sufficient to gain admittance to the order of Druids, the intellectual class of Celtic society. Members of the order were not practitioners of a specific religion, nor were they priests in the Christian sense of the word. The Greeks were more nearly correct by describing Druids as poet-philosophers.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

I'm not teaching you how to move your feet; I'm teaching you how to move your mind

The ability to sense an attack is what the ancient masters meant by anticipation. If one's mind is steady and pure, one can instantly perceive an attack and avoid it—that, I realized, is the essence of aiki (the art of harmonization)

Si la mente está tranquila y es pura, uno puede de inmediato percibir un ataque y evitarlo. Eso, me di cuenta, es la esencia del aiki (el arte de la armonización)».

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind

All-out nuclear war, of course, is just a literary device here; it is not a prerequisite for contemporary cultural disintegration, and indeed, one could argue that corporate consumer culture is tantamount to a kind of nuclear attack on the mind.

Primero hay que educar el corazón y después la cabeza".

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.

Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.

At this point I would like to quote from the sayings of the most recent of the great Indian rishis (or sages)—Sri Ramana Maharshi, who was an authority on occult psychology and all questions pertaining to the human mind: "An average man's mind is filled with countless thoughts, and therefore each individual one is extremely weak. When, in place of these many useless thoughts, there appears only one, it is a power in itself and has a wide influence.

For the practitioner, the understanding of wisdom and compassion—and the inherent tension between the two—is not to be resolved on a theoretical level, but to be experienced in one's own mind and body. In this way one finds emptiness and compassion to be mutually supportive rather than mutually contradictory.

The Universe is Mental, held in the mind of The ALL. The ALL is SPIRIT

Man is separated into Soul and Body, and only when the two sides of his senses agree together, does utterance of its thought conceived by mind take place.

The impious Soul screams: I burn; I am ablaze; I know not what to cry or do; wretched me, I am devoured by all the ills that compass me about; alack, poor me, I neither see nor hear! This is the Soul's chastisement of itself. For the Mind of the man imposes these on the Soul.

When a human being acts in ways that contradict the natural order of nature, negative qualities of the mind will develop within that person's personality.

The word which appeared as a pillar of flame out of the darkness is the Son of God, born of the mystery of the Mind. The name of the Word is Reason. Reason is the offspring of Thought

Spiritual aspirants must diligently follow the teaching. Practicing devotion to God has the effect of turning the mind towards the Divine and this leads to purity of feeling and thinking. Essentially, spiritual practice is a worship of the Divinity within oneself.

People who have dung in the mind are spreading the lies and rumor that COVID develops in lung.

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.