Quotes About Mind

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.

There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.

Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.

The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.

Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.

Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.

Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.

Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.

Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.

If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not available to you at this time.

He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

I'm me, and at the same time not me. That's what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.

The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.