Quotes About Mind

sanity is really limiting.

Work, fight, live. All the sweeter. Mind after mind will shape and absorb. In the end, all will be quiet with wisdom.

I have checked our teleportation technology, Tridax said. There was no sign of sabotage. You are a liar. Well, no one ever said Makuta were observant, said Vezon, How could you be so sure? Suppose I sabotaged it myself using my incredible powers of the mind. You have no powers, said the Makuta, picking up a wickedly sharp blade. You have no mind. You are about to have no head.

Given the nature of the mind, we'll consider the dreams of sleep to be the past, never quite accurate in recollection, always made to serve our desires (except when haunting us for our sins). And the wakeful present . . . well, it, too, holds its dangers.

The female memory defies explanation.

Odd what sticks to our memory, sort of an arbitrary choice made by the subconscious.

It is always easier to sleep at night if the monsters outside your house only knock when you give them cause.

In the physical disciplines of yoga, samadhi is reached by suspending the extremes of solar (pingala) and lunar (ida) mind. This state arises when the inner breath (prana) enters the central channel (sushumna). Then truth or deep reality suddenly flashes forth. Why

The way to focus our minds in prayer, therefore, is to picture mentally the one to whom we pray and the matter about which we pray.

When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.

Your conflicts reflect subminds in dispute. Such is the human condition

It's impossible to be really sad when you're asleep. You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?

Winston Churchill, who once defined a fanatic as someone who won't change his mind and can't change the subject.

The monster fills the eye and the mind, and for a second or two there seems to be nothing else in the world but the metal and the noise and the terror.

Are you curing people by telepathy now?

I sighed, sure in my own mind that the new war would change nothing: that wars can't really change things. It's peace that makes the deepest cuts, I thought.

The questions buzzed and swarmed in my whirling mind.

The first is this: that pain and suffering are connected, but they are not the same thing. Pain can exist without suffering, and it is also possible to suffer without feeling pain.

and in my mind I pushed the locked, heavy box of fear all the way to the back of the attic.

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. 'Cogito ergo sum' is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view.

After the baby boom of the second world war 40% of the population were under 25, and it was London that realised they needed to be dressed for their age and state of mind.

I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.