Quotes About Mind

What is a dream? It's an externalized thought, a projected thought. The mind makes a world that seems separate from the mind, but is in fact wholly contained by the mind and vanishes when the mind ceases to think about it. The universe itself is just the same. It's a projected thought. It is born in mind, and mind can end it, and eventually does. Then starts it up again. A new dream is launched.

The collective unconscious is the collective mind of the universe and is related to every individual mind. The interface of the collective unconscious and consciousness is the personal unconscious, populated by complexes. The personal unconscious is the liminal zone between individual consciousness and the collective unconscious, between man and God.

Novelists get spooked by a blank page, yet the unconscious mind can create amazing, creative dreams from scratch every night. It never has writer's block. It's never stuck when it comes to thrilling storytelling.

I'm coding an artisanal consciousness.

It's a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles—inside me and outside me—and the point where they overlap is where my experience of consciousness is located.

George had filled up his head with all the necessary bits and pieces for resolving a problem—all the individual trees—but then hit the forest and was overwhelmed. Finally deciding to accept failure, he let his mind get distracted and . . . plop. There it was: the answer.

The mind is an organ of creation; it organizes matter and energy, manipulates time and space. It organizes chaos into narrative.

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

To me, the real challenge is the human mind, which is driving our actions: our beliefs and values shape the way we see the world, which in turn determines how we will treat it. So long as we assume that we are the centre of the universe and everything revolves around us, we will not be able to see the dangers we create. To see those, we have to recognize that our very lives and our well-being depend on the richness of nature.

At all levels, people operate with many assumptions in mind—but these assumptions are rarely documented and are often in conflict between different developers.

In case of snow Drifting toward winter, Don't try to stay awake through the night, afraid of freezing-- The bottom of your mind knows all about zero; It will turn you over And shake you till you waken. -- David Wagoner

In case of snow Drifting toward winter, Don't try to stay awake through the long winter night, afraid of freezing-- The bottom of your mind knows all about zero; It will turn you over And shake you till you waken. -- David Wagoner

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

Solace is not meant to be an answer, but an invitation, through the door of pain and difficulty, to the depth of suffering and simultaneous beauty in the world that the strategic mind by itself cannot grasp nor make sense of.

Hell is a place on earth. Heaven is a place in your head.

You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don't haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

Some would have doubted their sanity at this point, but by now the part of my mind that issued doubts about my sanity had melted from overuse.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" asked "That if Franz Kafka were here his head would explode?" "Actually, yeah.

Hollywood raised us. Your mind processes the world through a filter formed by comic books and action movies on Cinemax. That's why kids put on trench coats and take guns to school. The Devil knows how to control us.

My mind didn't clear. It had been clear before. Instead it muddled, suddenly ablaze with rioting factions of insecurities and dreams, a cacophonous battleground of conflicting moral codes and dogma. I was, therefore, back to normal.

We rode in silence, I think all of us wondering what was behind the flowery wallpaper our perceptions had always pasted on the unknown. All the things the mind won't allow us to see, to protect our sanity, or our soul, or maybe just to keep the shit out of our pants.

making our way through a theme movie night (we'd picked out four films in which the ending is probably the main character's dying hallucination: Taxi Driver, Minority Report, The Shawshank Redemption, and Mrs. Doubtfire). In

Sixteen different objections rose up in my mind at once and somehow they all canceled each other out. Maybe if there had been an odd number. . .

A ghost sighting is usually nothing more than your brain trying to put a familiar face on something that does not have a face at all.