Quotes About Mind

To feel one's self, to be conscious of one's personality, is the lot of an eye inflamed by a cinder, or an infected finger, or a bad tooth. A healthy eye, or finger, or tooth is not felt; it is non-existent as it were. Is it not clear then, that consciousness of oneself is a sickness?

The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.

I learned in the course of time that the mind is a lifebuoy.

The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it?

There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.

All people lie, in their writing as much as in their lives. It frustrates me that I hold on to an unrealistic belief: there is some irrefutable truth in each mind, and the truth is told without concealment or distortion in a letter or in a journal entry.

You can't think and hit at the same time

I ain't the ulcer type, but I'm always worrying about something

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

It's 90% mental. The other half is physical

All happiness is in the mind.

The Gong has the power of Creativity. Absolutely it is a therapy. And it can expand the mind beyond its horizon

The entire universe is just a creation of thought. The play of the mind is just a creation of thought. Abandon the mind which is only thought. Take refuge in the changeless, O Rama, and surely find peace.

The mind is the lord of the senses, but the breath is the lord of the mind.

All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe in my head.

That which is above all to be shunned," said the philosopher, "is the encroachment of discouragement, the result of repeated failures. "Rare are those who wish to admit their mistakes. "In the structure of the mind, inaccuracy brings a partial deviation from the truth, and it does not take long for this slight error to generalize itself, if not corrected by its natural reformer — common sense.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.

It seemed that hell could appear day or night, at any time, at any place, simply in response to one's thoughts or wishes. It seemed that we could summon it at our pleasure and that instantly it would appear.

Daydreaming is not an intellectual process but rather an escape from intellectualism.

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