Quotes About Mind

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz'd, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

The God of religion exists only in our minds. The real God exists but we can never comprehend him in our minds

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.

The affection is mainly biological factor. Then further sort of strengthening, that religion helps.

A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.

I consider the Christian religion so important, [Jesus is] somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.

You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.

Religion equals logic... but the logic of the human mind can't perceptible it

I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.

Meditation is not a religion but a scientific way to enhance the concentration power of the mind.

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.