Quotes About Mind

Chance favors the prepared mind.

But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

if anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows that he has not understood the first thing about them.

I come to you as a man selling air, And you will think twice at the offer and price, And you will argue that nothing is there, Although we know that it is - everywhere. I bring a formula largely untold, - Of forces mixed with between and betwixt. And only seen when allowed to unfold. And better felt when the body is cold. I have a map to the home of the soul, Beyond the mind is a golden find, - The paradox is a guide to the goal, - Though doubt is sacred, each man is the Whole.

I'd come to realize that if a man is ever going to grasp anything it won't be by learning. His being has to change. You are what you do, not what you know. A man never learns; he becomes. To become, you must find ways and means to change your entire state of mind. This in turn will lead to a change of being.

Sometimes when you've pulled and pushed at a problem without getting an answer, or tried to grab a too-slippery memory, if you completely dismiss the matter from consciousness, often — when it's least expected — the answer will pop up like toast from the depths of your unconscious toaster. I do it all the time. In fact, that may be why some people call me Shell Scott, the Unconscious Detective.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Rutin, belirli bir noktada zararl? hale gelmeye baÅŸlar. Çünkü insanoÄŸlu kendi çabas? üzerindeki kontrolünü yitirir; çal??ma zaman? üzerindeki kontrolün yitmesi ise insan?n zihnen öldüÄŸü anlam?na gelir.

Can thou believe that Christ is in heaven, and that thou art in heavenly places with Christ, and yet have no mind of heavenly things, but are carried away with every earthly thing? No. Thou has not yet tasted how good and gracious the Lord is; thou has not relished the heavenly manna. (The Fruitful Labor for Eternal Food, p. 369)

You'd break your heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull when the mind swells.

I kept my mind on the moon.

You see it as a room, a tabernacle, the dark hotel. You're in the hallway again, and you open the door, and if you're ready you'll see it, but maybe one part of your mind decides that the other parts aren't ready, and then you don't remember where you've been

The body swerves in the service of the mind, which is evidence of the mind but not actual proof.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Most people lie about small things but would be afraid to lie about big things. But manipulators know that if you insist on a lie long enough, many people will believe you — especially if you have the resources of mass media to air your lie. All skilled manipulators are focused on what you can get people to believe, not on what is true or false. They know that the human mind does not naturally seek the truth; it seeks comfort, security, personal confirmation and vested interest. In

our essential process for making a decision still relies on emotion.

Cooking was a great discovery not merely because it gave us better food, or even because it made us physically human. It did something even more important: it helped make our brains uniquely large, providing a dull human body with a brilliant human mind.

The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say." Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The pendulum reads energy patterns. It is able to extract information from deep inside our subconscious minds.

With the pendulum, information can be transferred from the subconscious to the conscious mind, easily and effortlessly.

Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers.

Ar trebui s? ne preÅ£uim mintea dup? atitudinea pe care o lu?m în situaÅ£ii limit?, când ea se str?duieÅŸte s? g?seasc? o cale de ieÅŸire în momentele de criz? suprem?. Atunci când raÅ£iunea trebuie s? treac? peste pr?pastia morÅ£ii, faÅ£ada ateismului, aproape întotdeauna, se pr?buÅŸeÅŸte.