Quotes About Mind

One suffers because of the idea that the body is "I". Misery

The world is your thought.

So the body which did not exist in sleep, "exists" now in "waking.

There is mischief, or ignorance, as long as there is an object apart from a subject:

When there is no one to "experience," where is there a question of an I? Only that which Is remains.

The "mind" is nothing but "thoughts"; and behind every thought, there is the primary thought, which is the I-thought.

So long as "mind" survives, "religion" will also exist. But no religion will persist in the silence that results from looking within. It is the ego that comes up, in the form of saying, "my religion should be embraced by all.

The sage's ego has died, thus he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer; instead, like an actor playing his part in a drama—free from [emotions such as] "love" or "hate." Then, there is no agitation of mind, sense of doership, and personality: when all that is stopped, there is quiet, stillness.

There are no "others": the Self is the one and only reality.

If you realize you are without form, that you are unlimited, what is there to be seen apart [a "separate" body]? There is no connection, during sleep, with the body, the senses, and the mind: on waking up, you identify yourself with them. All that you have to do, hereafter, is see that you do not identify your self with them.

The immanent Reality alone is. It is infinite. There arises, from it, this finite [extension of] consciousness, taking on a limited form [mind].

meditation as a process that takes a conscious mind that gets to do a little nudging and turns it into something that can do a lot of

Mindfulness meditation, the main vehicle of Vipassana, is a good way to study the human mind. At least, it's a good way to study one human's mind: yours. You sit down, let the mental dust settle, and then watch your mind work.

Y tal vez eso es lo que es el «yo», lo que «tú» eres, una vez que se abandona la idea de yo: un tipo de forma de conciencia purificada.

WRITER: But tell me before you go. What was the worst thing about being down here? AGNES: Just existing. Knowing my sight was blurred by my eyes, my hearing dulled by my ears, and my bright thought trapped in the grey maze of a brain. Have you seen a brain?

What is best in Freud is his sensing the paradox of being a highly social animal: being at our core libidinous, rapacious, and generally selfish, yet having to live civilly with other human beings—having to reach our animal goals via a tortuous path of cooperation, compromise, and restraint. From this insight flows Freud's most basic idea about the mind: it is a place of conflict between animal impulses and social reality.

Brain scans are showing that a curious state of mind involves activity in the dopamine system.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a meditation teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, has said, "Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them." What he meant is that if you want to liberate yourself from the parts of the mind that keep you from realizing true happiness, you have to first become aware of them, which can be unpleasant.

So if the conscious mind isn't in control, what is in control?

Still, at a minimum it seems fair to say that the role of our conscious selves in guiding behavior is not nearly as big as was long thought. And the reason this role was exaggerated is that the conscious mind feels so powerful; in other words, the conscious mind is naturally deluded about its own nature.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Erdosain was standing stock still, but his mind raced off on a minute-long journey like someone floating through a dream landscape—the kind of experience that afterwards seems to prove life is shot through with a prescient fatalism.

The mind is brought into harmony with the spirit and includes the body, achieving an organic, harmonious unity of all aspects of the person's being, what we might call 'bio-psychosynthesis'. This is true spiritual alchemy

E incluso cabía una opción peor: que Cesárea hubiera torcido la realidad conscientemente.