Quotes About Mind

lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness, a weak mind that had to be overcome.

The stress isn't coming from 'out there.' Mainly it is coming from our mind.

Naše prožívaní reality je spíš projekcí naší vlastní mysli, a to mnohem víc než si p?ipouštíme.

If nothing around us has any genuine substance, then all the happiness or unhappiness we feel comes from our mind. All qualities, attractive and unattractive, are a product of mind alone.

The best use for these methods is in our practice of Dharma. That is how they evolved. When we begin our journey with renunciation, we accept that our happiness, our wellbeing, is dependent not so much on circumstances, as on our mind. We decide to turn away from the true causes of our unhappiness, which is, say, our attachment or anger, and instead cultivate more beneficial mental states. We take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, yes?

Change our mind, and we change our experience.

When we understand the true nature of mind, we start to see these thoughts merely as thoughts instead of engaging with them. They arise, abide, and pass. They have no substance and certainly no power unless we git it to them.

When one is angry, the first person to suffer is oneself. No one who is angry has a happy, peaceful mind.

To help others achieve that we must first remove what is obscuring our own mind. Then, like the doctor, our capacity to help is very much greater.

As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.

We cannot work on the body unless we also work on the mind.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. —Albert Einstein

The Buddhist definition of mind as 'a formless continuum of clarity and cognition' is very much in keeping with quantum science theories that matter and energy are two aspects of the same reality.

Whatever is on our mind, we project onto the world outside us.

Casting a stone into a tranquil lake has a much greater impact than throwing the same stone into a turbulent sea. So, too, the understanding of a settled mind.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Your unconscious mind is trying to figure out how to talk to your conscious.

The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs have no worth without nostalgia, after all. They're meaningless if a memory isn't linked to them.

I fear I am losing my mind. I do not mean "losing my grasp of reality." I know perfectly well what is happening. But I am powerless to prevent the outcome. Each day, I have less strength of mind to resist.

Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you.

In general, evangelical fear of liberal learning has contributed to what Mark Noll properly described as "the scandal of the evangelical mind"—which is, in Noll's immortal phrase, "that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

but whether the Church universal will or should change its mind collectively.

Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?

It gave him a thrill to think how someone in PvP would report that they had been killed by Gnobody. A whole "who's on first?" routine popped up in his mind. "So who killed you?" "Gnobody" "OK you were killed?" "Yes" "And when you were killed who killed you?" "Gnobody" "But somebody killed you?" "Yes". On and On,