Quotes About Mind

As Nisargadatta said, 'The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it." Often

When reading this book, Listen to it with your heart. Let it be a mirror of your own great nature. Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. 1

The falling of the leaves is the truth. The sweeping is the truth. The wind's blowing them away is the truth. The people's anger also is the truth. If your mind is moving, you can't understand the truth. You must first understand that form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Next, no form, no emptiness. Then you will understand that form is form, emptiness is emptiness. Then all these actions are the truth. And then you will find your true home.

What they had done as revenge was actually a blessing in the long run. In reality, nothing is as it seems to be through the filter of a fearful mind. Everything, even the most painful experience, turns out to be pure grace.

Considerando que, con todo el odio expulsado fuera [la mente] su inocencia radical recupera y descubre por fin que por sí misma es capaz de deleitarse, de apaciguarse, de amedrentarse, y que su propia y dulce voluntad es la voluntad del cielo.

Considerando que, con todo el odio expulsado fuera [la mente] su inocencia radical recupera y descubre por fin que por sí misma es capaz de deleitarse, de apaciguarse, de amedrentarse, y que su propia y dulce voluntad es la voluntad del cielo. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The self is a friend for him who masters himself by the Self; but for him who is not self-mastered, the self is the cruelest foe.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.

Samuel Johnson observed: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds." —Dag Hammarskjöld

Samuel Johnson observed: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove." Knowing

He looked into his own head and thought he saw the world

Samuel Johnson observó: «La fuente de la alegría debe brotar en la mente, y quien conozca tan poco la naturaleza humana como para buscar la felicidad en cualquier cosa que no sea su propia disposición, malgastará su vida en esfuerzos infructuosos y multiplicará las aflicciones que se propone suprimir».

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more.

With the dizzying rate of change in technology and increasing competition driven by the globalization of markets and technology, we must not only be educated, we must constantly re-educate and reinvent ourselves. We must develop our minds and continually sharpen and invest in the development of our competencies to avoid becoming obsolete.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Rebellion is a knot of the heart, not of the mind.

The greatest battles we fight are in the silent chambers of our own souls.

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness. PC work is treating employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best part—their hearts and minds.

Where does intrinsic security come from? It doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from the scripts they've handed us. It doesn't come from our circumstances or our position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

Tu actitud determina tu altitud», «La sonrisa hace más amigos que el entrecejo fruncido» y «La mente humana puede lograr todo lo que concibe y cree».