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Quotes About Mind

Trust does not cancel our mind but circumscribes it and tames it—and so we do not succumb to fretting or anxious thoughts of being unsure.
~ Unknown
Paradoxically, the challenges of our day-to-day existence are sustained reminders that our life of faith simply must have its center somewhere other than in our ability to hold it together in our minds.
~ Unknown
Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Consciousness is just a window into time.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Memories do not hurt, they only influence.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Worry is the Devil's disciple, it rots the soul.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Thanks to Dybal's recognition gift, his mind perceived her longtalk trying to insinuate itself into his consciousness, a soothing compulsion for him to come to her just as she had suggested. She was trying to dominate him.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Now Horst Elwes looked at the speck of red light and felt the dry weight of aeons press in on his mind again. To have the existence of supernatural divinity proven like this was a hideous travesty.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
The flux tube's rain of energy penetrates the tormented lower atmosphere. It is embraced by the Ly-cilph. Their minds consume the power, using it to metamorphose once again. The nodes brought them sentience, the supergiant's surplus energy brings them transcendence. They leave the chrysalis of the flesh behind, shooting up the stream of particles at lightspeed, spacefree and eternal.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Disorganization of attachment may be the indication of exceptionally poor mentalization.
~ Unknown
Mentalization—a concept that is familiar in developmental circles—is the process by which we realize that having a mind mediates our experience of the
~ Unknown
These factors may combine to make disorganized infants become keen readers of the caregiver's mind under certain circumstances but, we suggest, poor readers of their own mental states.
~ Unknown
According to Damasio, the core self is the foundation of consciousness, and the autobiographical self is its glory
~ Unknown
People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.
~ Peter Gabriel
Hysteria defied self-control; obsessional neurosis mimicked it.
~ Peter Gay
octopuses, far more than rats and pigeons, have their own ideas:
~ Unknown
The mind evolved in the sea.
~ Unknown
Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.
~ Peter Gould
When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.
~ Peter Høeg
if you restrict earthly things, you set up your thoughts free for the spiritual.
~ Peter Høeg
Wir verkümmern, lieber Herr Doktor, weil wir nur noch meinen und nicht mehr denken.
~ Unknown
Horror is something perfectly natural: the mind's emptiness. A thought is taking shape, then suddenly it notices that there is nothing more to think. Whereupon it crashes to the ground like a figure in a comic strip who suddenly realises that he has been walking on air.
~ Peter Handke
Die Müdigkeit als das Mehr des weniger Ich.
~ Peter Handke