Quotes About Mind

There's certainly no unchanging self that is carried through from one moment to the next. Its a processes; it's not a thing. You're a verb more than you're a noun (from the point of view of neuroscience).

Every experience you have ever had has been shaped by your mind. Every relationship is as good or as bad as it is because of the minds involved. If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life—you won't enjoy any of it.

Free will is an illusion.

Happiness and suffering, however extreme, are mental events. The mind depends upon the body, and the body upon the world, but everything good or bad that happens in your life must appear in consciousness to matter.

The mind is a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is the thinker. The thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will automatically vanish.

You have not built your mind. And in moments in which you seem to build it—when you make an effort to change yourself, to acquire knowledge, or to perfect a skill—the only tools at your disposal are those that you have inherited from moments past.

It is perfectly obvious that I, as the conscious witness of my experience, am not the deep cause of it.

There is no question that many religious disciplines can produce interesting experiences in suitable minds. It should be clear, however, that engaging a faith-based (and probably delusional) practice, whatever its effects, isn't the same as investigating the nature of one's mind absent any doctrinal assumptions.

Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences. While these states of mind are usually interpreted through the lens of one or another religious doctrine, we know that this is a mistake.

During the normal course of events, your mind will determine the quality of your life.

It solves the problem of "free will" by ignoring it. How can we be "free" as conscious agents if everything

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

Its me own battle... and I'm seeing me body take on me mind.... BIG TIME!

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

You can say what Pilates is in three words. Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind.

Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.