Quotes About Mind

I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.

Do you know, Fontanes, what astonishes me most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit

L'ambition de dominer sur les esprits est la plus forte de toutes les passions.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Those who receive the most images into their memories have the most lively imaginations.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.

There is no better place or time to be philosophical than when you are airborne. Suspended between heaven and earth, introspection becomes inevitable. The plane may be traveling at supersonic speed but the mind travels faster than light—seemingly without a sense of direction, but almost always with a definite purpose.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

E quando si vedono le cose future con tanta chiarezza, come già stessero succedendo, allora è segno che non devono succedere mai. Perchè son già successe, in un certo senso, nella nostra testa, e non è più consentito di provarle davvero.

Let yourself live in something that is already rightfully yours—your own wild mind.

What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mannered, congenial.

When you write a memory, it isn't in the past anyway. It's alive right now.

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.

We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us.

It was my own human mind. I needed to understand it. Why? It's the writer's landscape. Imagine that a painter has that wild animal to capture on canvas: arresting its fangs, the raging color of its eyes, the blue of it's hump, the flash of its hoofs, the rugged shadow that it casts. We writers have that beast inside us: how we feel, think, hope, dream, perceive.

Once you connect with your mind, you are who you are and you're free.

When I teach a class, I want the students to be "writing down the bones," the essential, awake speech of their minds. But I also know I can't just say, "Okay, write clearly and with great honesty." In class we try different techniques or methods. Eventually, the students hit the mark, come home to what they need to say and how they need to say it.

First thoughts have tremendous energy. It is the way the mind first flashes on something. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.

I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.

Programming is your spirit, software is your mind, hardware is your body and your physical reality.