Quotes About Mind

Vanity metrics wreak havoc because they prey on a weakness of the human mind. In my experience, when the numbers go up, people think the improvement was caused by their actions, by whatever they were working on at the time.

brain is like a shortwave radio, mostly static that occasionally finds the station, but even then the sound isn't always clear.

A rational mind is sometimes the queerest mixture of rationality and irrationality on earth.

Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.

tranquillity is only one aspect of the harmony of life. And harmony is what all people strive to achieve. Harmony is the basis of a clear mind, of a good and powerful karma.

The underlying notion of a world where the sane is insane

The human mind is capable of creating anything that can be imagined.

Some demons could only be fought from within.

Vico, who looks at the whole of human history and says, "mind made all this

Lohnt es sich denn?", fragt der Kopf. "Nein, aber es tut so gut!", antwortet das Herz.

Mut beweist man nicht mit der Faust allein, man braucht den Kopf dazu.

Mein Charakter ist meinem Verstand in keiner Weise gewachsen. Ich bedaure das aufrichtig, aber ich tue nichts mehr dagegen.

Thus, on the primitive level, conscious realization is called eating. When we talk of the conscious mind "assimilating" an unconscious content, we are not saying much more than is implied in the symbol of eating and digesting.

the motto of all consciousness is determinatio est negatio.

The center common to conscious action through the will and to conscious knowledge through cognition is, however, the ego.

the conscious state is the late and uncommon phenomenon, and its complete attainment is far more of a rarity than modern man so flatteringly pretends, while the unconscious state is the original, basic, psychic situation

The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind.

Psychokinesis

Where the past has ceased and the future has not yet arisen, In the unimpeded state of present wakefulness, Rest in the manner of mind looking into mind. No matter what thoughts may arise at this time, They are all the display of the single mind essence. As the nature of space is unchanging, You will realize the all-pervasive mind essence to be changeless. This is the Great Perfection (dzogchen), the ultimate of all vehicles, The unexcelled meaning of the self-existing Mind Section.

At times we pick from our "extensive time experience" some enchanting moments that are cuddling in our mind. They are stolen moments from our durational perception and we are keen on holding them preciously in our memory's Garden of Eden. ("Stolen moments" )

By recurrently changing the horizon, things can be perceived from another angle and the perspectives of life can be reoriented in a captivating way. If not, the squeaking wheel of our mind will suffer from lack of oil and our vision of the world gets rusted.

Camera obscura. The reverse engineering of our brain allows us to disassemble all the little pieces in the "camera obscura" of our mind and to identify changes and choices made, after absorbing the phenomena of our life.

Ephemeral emotions can be saved in the backyard of our memory. Beauty and poetry are stored in the mind and illuminate our thoughts. ( "Living life as a poem" )

The brain absorbs all the phenomena of our daily life, constructs a maze of countless corridors that run through our mind and opens numerous unconscious wishes and subdued desires, which are processed in the labyrinths of our subconscious. ( " Labyrinth of the mind " )