Quotes About Mind

The power of the enlightened being to affect his or her environment is immense. The enlightened mind can landscape worlds, preserve planets, save whole environments, create buddhaverses. The enlightened being is almost like a god. (p. 150)

i go deeper into my head

He supposed that the dream was fragile. If thought about to practically, if analyzed to closely, it might well cease to recur. The dream was probably best left in the back of the mind, at the edges of the mind; within that mental area which comes into its own between waking and sleeping- and, less happily, between sleeping and waking.

It is amazing how full a life a man can lead without for one moment being alive at all, except sometimes when sleeping.

Dr. Freud established that only a small part, perhaps one-tenth, of the human mental and emotional organization is conscious. Our main response to this discovery has been to reject the nine-tenths unconscious more completely and more systematically than ever before. The ghost story makes contact with the submerged nine-tenths.

For much of art lies in the shifting aperture between the shadowy fore-image in the anticipating mind of the observer and the realized revelatory image in the work itself, and that is what we must learn to perceive more finely in the Bible.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

The understanding of fear cures fear.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

what is more accessible in mind becomes more probable in action,

Just as amino acids can be called the building blocks of life, associations can be called the building blocks of thought.49 In

Cuando tienes miedo no puedes pensar con claridad

the guiding factor in a decision is often not the one that counsels most wisely; it's one that has recently been brought to mind.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The scouts' motto is founded on my initials. It is: Be Prepared, which means, you are always to be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

There's nothing to this telepathy business. It's all in the mind.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?