Quotes About Mind

I like to pretend that you belong to me, just to play with the idea, but of course I know you don't. I'm alone, really--with my back to the wall fighting the world--and I get sort of gaspy when I think about it. I put it out of my mind, and keep on pretending; but don't you see, Daddy?

Aren't men funny? When they want to pay you the greatest compliment in their power, they naively tell you that you have a masculine mind. There is one compliment, incidentally, that I shall never be paying him. I cannot honestly say that he has a quickness of perception almost feminine.

I like to pretend that you belong to me, just to play with the idea, but of course I know you don't. I'm alone, really-with my back to the wall fighting the world-and I get sort of gaspy when I think about it. I put it out of my mind, and keep on pretending ~

Peut-être, le temps passant, la question première : « D'où ça vient les enfants ? » laisse-t-elle la place à celle-ci : « D'où ça nous vient, nos pensées ? »

Petite taille mais corps solide, c'était un travailleur manuel de l'esprit, un prolo de la conscience thétique.

Anla??lmaz bir homurtu olarak gördü?ü bu dünyada, sessiz ve akl? kar???k biri gibi görünmek ho?una gidiyordu.

În clipa când È›i se impune s? nu te gândeÈ™ti la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. InterdicÈ›ia devine obligaÈ›ie.

Memoria - fie memoria individual?, fie memoria colectiv? care este cultura - are o dubl? funcÈ›ie. Una, într-adev?r, e s? conserve anumite date, cealalt? s? cufunde în uitare informaÈ›iile ce nu ne folosesc È™i care ne-ar putea înc?rca inutil minÈ›ile.

Om niet terecht te komen in de valkuilen die onze zintuigen, ons dagelijkse denken en de vastgelopen logica ons voorspiegelen.

She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before her questioners or her guards. In men's minds fear was a certain mark of guilt.

The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or too violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.

The mind is an activity, not a repository.

This is a cycle, she thinks. Every day a fresh horror, and when it's over, this feeling of surreal detachment. A disbelief, almost, in what they just endured. The mind is magical. Human beings are magical.

The sky is scrubbed fresh and stark blue by the gone rain, but every trace of that water has evaporated from the earth around them. It feels like a dream, all that rainfall. This is a cycle, she thinks. Every day a fresh horror, and when it's over, this feeling of surreal detachment. A disbelief, almost, in what they just endured. The mind is magical. Human beings are magical.

Every day a fresh horror, and when it's over, this feeling of surreal detachment. A disbelief, almost, in what they just endured. The mind is magical. Human beings are magical.

At the cinema we do not think, we are thought.

La pensée est le réveil du sens.

Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could seem perfectly logical at midnight.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens.

The Savage Rocks of Eternal Mind   Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed it clean on the savage rocks of Eternal Mind.   How its colors bled, until they grew white! You smile and sit back; I dry in your sun.   Rumi

To say that the individual can do nothing to break free of dualistic perception because it results in nondualistic perception is nonsensical, like saying a living being can't step off a cliff because it results in death, or that a dreamer can't wake up because he's dreaming.

Why is everyone seeking and no one finding? Because they're not seeking truth or growth or change, they're seeking peace of mind. The rest is just dressing.

Spiritual Autolysis—trying to write something true and keeping at it until you do—is the best possible way of identifying and eradicating our falseness because the process of writing minimizes the weaknesses and maximizes the strengths of the intellect. Nothing false can survive illumination by a steady and focused mind.