Quotes About Mind

Freedom begins between the ears.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

You don't see anything, do you? You see everything but the goddamn mind; you see all the little specs and crap, but you don't see what goes on, do you?

Mistakes and failure are not signs of weakness; instead they are opportunities for future success. Failure is a sign of a creative mind, of original thought and strength.

Does not mean merely a physical aggregation of a number of persons…the crowd is rather a state of mind.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

no organised being could ever have been called into existence by other agency than by the direct intervention of a reflective mind.

And now the initiation was begun. She was to read, to study, to depict by a gesture, a look, the passions she was to delineate on the boards; lessons dangerous, in truth, to some, but not to the pure enthusiasm that comes from art; for the mind that rightly conceives art is but a mirror which gives back what is cast on its surface faithfully only—while unsullied.

Dost thou think," said Mejnour, "that I would give to the mere pupil, whose qualities are not yet tried, powers that might change the face of the social world? The last secrets are intrusted only to him of whose virtue the Master is convinced. Patience! It is labour itself that is the great purifier of the mind; and by degrees the secrets will grow upon thyself as thy mind becomes riper to receive them.

But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.

Abide not with dualism, Carefully avoid pursuing it; As soon as you have right and wrong, Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)

So, you may be thinking, if dualism is the view that there are two ultimate sorts of stuff, mind and matter, probably we also find a doctrine that says there is only matter, and another that holds that there is nothing but mind. And you're quite right. The first is called materialism, the second idealism (not mentalism), and both have plenty of history. The

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

But just the same, she dared not allow her mind to look up, for she sensed that the tattered images of her dreams were still hung high on the masts of her consciousness like the ragged remainders of sails flapping after a storm.

Don't loseYour headTo gain a minuteYou need your headYour brains are in it.

Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain.

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

Spirituality is... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

Clothed, and in his right mind.

Avoid what is evil; do what is good; purify the mind—this is the teaching of the Awakened One [Buddha].