Quotes About Mind

Buddhism is primarily a study of mind and a system for training the mind. It is spiritual in nature, not religious. Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. It relies on reason and analysis, contemplation and meditation, to transform knowledge about something into knowledge that surpasses understanding.

Whatever our desires may be, getting the object of our desire is not the same thing as contentment, which comes from within. In the end, we'll never find complete contentment, a perfect sense of peace, if our mind isn't content and at peace.

Although Buddhism can be practiced "religiously," in many respects, it isn't really a religion. Because of its emphasis on questioning and working with the mind, it is spiritual in nature. But because it relies on logical analysis and reasoning, as well as on meditation, many Buddhist teachers regard Buddhism as a science of mind rather than a religion.

Once we walk through that door, however, we're met with a paradox: the forms disappear. On the other side, there are no statues of buddhas, no incense bowls, no sound of gongs or chanting, no tatami mats or brocades, no meditation cushions, and no meditators. Why? These forms and activities are simply the means to enter the open dimension of our own mind. The wisdom they point to has no tangible form of its own.

This emptiness, it turned out, was a revolutionary discovery, full of possibilities to free me from my lifelong blind faith in realism, which suddenly seemed so naïve and simpleminded.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Istoria omului reprezinta o lupta continua intre instinct si inteligenta, intre ritmul involuntar al organismului si modelele autocreate ale constiintei.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

Orang Cendekia sudah harus adil sejak dari pikiran

Dan dengan tidak terasa umur manusia pun lenyap sedetik demi sedetik ditelan siang dan malam. Tapi masalah-masalah manusia tetap muda seperti waktu, Di mana pun juga dia menyerbu ke dalam kepala dan dada manusia, kadang-kadang ia pergi lagi dan di tinggalkannya kepala dan dada itu kosong seperti langit. (Bukan Pasar Malam, 68)

I've often heard people say, "Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise." When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?

Kekuatan pikiran yang memimpin, bukan hanya keberanian dan teror,

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you want to break free from the shackles presented by the rigours of daily life? Do you dream of getting away from it all, going for a vacation, or simply quitting? The solution is not quitting. Abandoning the duties of life will not help you find peace of mind. What you need is to learn to manage all the aspects of your life well. Increase your capability, and you will never feel like quitting again.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant....Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

Why, human thought is a real element, a real force, darting out like electricity from every man's or woman's mind, injuring or relieving, killing or curing, building fortunes or tearing them down, working for good or ill, every moment, night or day, asleep or awake, carving, moulding and shaping people's faces and making them ugly or agreeable.

The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

Because this is war. The fight of your life. A very real enemy has been strategizing and scheming against you, assaulting you, coming after your emotions, your mind, your man, your child, your future. In fact, he's doing it right this second. Right where you're sitting. Right where you are.

All great things are in your mind and your heart. If you do not find them there, you will not find them anywhere else.

All the beauty of life is made up of mind and imagination.

Bow down , I am the emperor of perceptions.

Feelings have their causes that the mind knows nothing about.

Reality is not an autonomous imagination.