Quotes About Mind

The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your mind takes the form of these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to the Formless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you

Hay tres motivos por los cuales vivimos: vivimos para el cuerpo, vivimos para la mente, y vivimos para el alma. 

Man is a thinking substance, a portion of the Cosmic Substance; but man is limited, while God has no limits. We are immersed in mind and that mind contains all knowledge and all truth. It is seeking to give us this knowledge, for God delights to give good gifts to his children.

un pensamiento sostenido en ella produce la forma de lo que se pensó. El pensamiento en la sustancia pensante produce formas. Un

Hay una materia pensante de la cual todas las cosas están hechas y la cual, en su estado original, impregna, penetra y llena los inter espacios del universo. Un pensamiento en esta sustancia produce la cosa imaginada por el pensamiento. Una persona puede crear cosas en su pensamiento; y al comunicar su pensamiento a la sustancia sin forma, puede causar que aquello en que ha pensado sea creado.   Se

A person cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship. To live fully in mind, one must have intellectual recreations and must be surrounded by all objects of art and beauty one is capable of using and appreciating.

They know when they face the white paper for their real work that their unconscious mind is a lost continent which may give them flashes of wit and grossness and metaphorical beauty

It seems undeniable that once it beings, violence leads us into some sort of madness, some terrifying maze inside the mind in which we become lost, and we don't know what's happening or what we ourselves are doing.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

It was as if she had thought him into existence again, as if her mind were a flask into which had been poured a measure of longing, a measure of discontent, a measure of fatigue, a dash of bitterness, and pouf, there he stood.

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There hadn't really been any decision. As she dragged the round-topped trunk up the steps and propped its lid against the table, she was thinking that you never really made up your mind to anything. You simply bent where the pressure was greatest. You didn't surrender, because surrender was annihilation, but you gave before the pressure.

The driver of an automobile on a lonely road is a set of perceptions mounted in the forehead of a mechanical monster.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Beauty is momentary in the mind—The fitful tracing of a portal;But in the flesh it is immortal.The body dies; the body's beauty lives.

And, capable, created in his mind,Eventual victor, out of the martyrs' bonesThe ultimate elegance: the imagined land.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

The palm at the end of the mind,Beyond the last thought, rises…A gold-feathered birdSings in the palm.

Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.

Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

Thought tends to collect in pools.

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