Quotes About Mind

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully...

You know not the value of the heart you have insulted... You, sir, I thank you, have lowered my fortunes: but, I bless God, that my mind is not sunk with my fortunes. It is, on the contrary, raised above fortune, and above you[.]

In the preshent human condition, pain is unavoidable. As long as you inhabit a physical body, you have to experience pain from time to time. Suffering is of a different nature. It is a reaction of the manas/mind that magnifies the pain and adds various emotional frills and thrills to it. In many cases, pain is only transient; but if one wishes, one can always add to it and suffer more - there is no limit.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

The reality you are experiencing right now has been created from past thoughts. It may take time for the reality you created in the past to change into the new reality you are now setting up for yourself.

You might imagine your thoughts as magnets. These magnets go out into the world and attract the substances that match them; they duplicate themselves in form. Everything around you was a thought in someone's mind before it existed in your reality. Cars, roads, homes, buildings, and cities all existed as thoughts before they became realities.

The path to perceiving his disorder in all its destruction is littered with the remains of her mind and soul.

In fact, whenever Ben thought about it, his worry would slowly evaporate. But when he didn't think about it, it niggled and made him need to think about it again.

Paranoia is a very comforting state of mind. If you think they're out to get you, it means you think you matter.

We believe in ourselves in this narrow, limited, egoistic sense, as identified with the body and the lower mind. We are blind to any higher vision, any more ultimate selfhood, any more universal mind or consciousness. This belief in self in this sense is a fetter that has to be broken before we can enter the Stream and break through into a higher, wider dimension of being and consciousness.

It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.

It is your you that bosses you around all day, raises important as well as inane questions, beats you up emotionally on occasion,

Uno necesita un presente, para no tener que pensar en el pasado.

Come to me once more, and abate my torment; Take the bitter care from my mind, and give me All I long for; Lady, in all my battles Fight as my comrade.

Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up...I don't know what I should do: two states of mind in me...

Eros shook my mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees.

Don't madden my mind

Dear God, Lisa, give me back my peace of mind!

They were silent for a moment, each of them contemplating Anthony Comstock, a demagogue with too much power for such a limited understanding and narrow mind. Many saw him as nothing more than a sanctimonious buffoon, but those who paid attention knew him to be malicious and calculating.

Seems like those boys of mine get into three times as much trouble when school is out. I still don't understand how you get them to mind without a switch or at least a primed rifle over your arm." He reached over to help himself to the doughnuts.