Quotes About Mind

The faults were clear enough: the greatest of them was an initial lack of appreciation of the possibilities of the enemy; a certain indiscipline of mind; a tendency towards exaggeration

Humility and gratitude leave your heart and mind open to receive unexpected blessings, even on the heels of disappointment.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts.

Psychedelics show you what's in and on your mind, those subconscious thoughts and feelings that are are hidden, covered up, forgotten, out of sight, maybe even completely unexpected, but nevertheless imminently present.

Psychedelics exert their effects by a complex blending of three factors: set, setting, and drug.

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

Sound simple? My best advice is to try it. The way the human brain works, when you write down important points, your mind-body tends to keep that information in a very secure place … and best of all, you won't forget it.

Thought gives rise to desire.

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

And I cannot help but wonder as we navigate the realms of our own manufacture, will we remember how to cherish one another, or will these realms turn out to be far too self-referential, a kind of beautifully furnished tomb, a mind loop, a mirror reflecting a mirror-offering a vista that can only induce dizziness, longing, and loneliness?

When you have chaos and clutter in your work or living space, you have chaos and clutter in your mind and in your heart. When clutter surrounds you, your mind becomes jumbled;

Il corpo faccia quello che vuole, io sono la mente.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

In me there are two souls, alas, and their Division tears my life in two. One loves the world, it clutches her, it binds Itself to her, clinging with furious lust; The other longs to soar beyond the dust Into the realm of high ancestral minds. (lines 1102–7)

Once we see an inner pattern of mind clearly and bring to it mindful awareness and acceptance, this in itself initiates the process of self-liberation.

Another problem arises if we work with technique: we work with something which is manipulating the mind, whereas the purpose of meditation is to release the grasping action of the mind so that the inherently enlightened qualities can manifest.

But that's who your wife is, the person you fail in front of. Love is so confusing; there's no peace of mind.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away

I didnt loose my mind, it was mine to give away

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the "unconscious." There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our "heart" or intuition, another.

Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these are major states of mind in contemporary imaginative literature.

The world is what the individual makes it. A world of individuals is the intersubjective, collective mind field of all those individuals. Standing on the ground of freedom, we can see things afresh, enter relationships renewed and with a new purpose of sharing freedom and happiness. We can become poets and seers of reality. We can become great adepts, true individuals, agents of compassion. To live in a world is to be constantly creating that world. (p. 215)