Quotes About Mind

I dream every night. I dream before I go to sleep, and I dream after waking up.

Mis sueños son como la vigilia de ustedes

Pensar é esquecer diferenças, é generalizar, abstrair.

Ebrio de insomnio y de vertiginosa dialéctica

El olvido bien puede ser una forma profunda de la memoria.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.

I will speak that I may find relief"; for there is a redemptive quality for an agitated mind in the spoken word, and a tormented soul finds peace in confessing.

O God in heaven, if you're so designed that you can listen to two voices blast at once from but one set of lips and find in them not noise but strife between the past and future, raise to you my coughing mind and plant its microbes where your light is cast. Divide among them with your mighty hand the sum of these convulsive thoughts and days. And leave the fraction of me left behind to triumph over silence then, at least.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.

The lines of communication between the conscious and the unconscious zones of the human psyche have all been cut, and we have been split in two.

Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive.

Now, one of the main problems of mythology is reconciling the mind to this brutal precondition of all life, which lives by the killing and eating of lives. You don't kid yourself by eating only vegetables, either, for they, too, are alive. So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives, and the reconciliation of the human mind and sensibilities to that fundamental fact

of that dragon power. When Siegfried has killed the dragon and tasted the blood, he hears the song of nature. He has transcended his humanity and reassociated himself with the powers of nature, which are the powers of our life, and from which our minds remove us. You see, consciousness thinks it's running the

The ultimate dragon is within you. It is your ego clamping you down.

The body is not the Bodhi tree. The mind, no mirror bright. Since nothing is there, on what should dust alight?

the only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others.'