Quotes About Mind

Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life and death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness and answer any question we are capable of asking. We cannot hold ten thousand words in short-term memory. We cannot see in ultraviolet light. And perhaps we cannot solve conundrums like free will and sentience.

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

More love, more power, more of You in my life. I will worship You with all of my heart, I will worship You with all of my mind, I will worship You with all of my strength, for You are my Lord.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.

the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.

Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening.

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts. 'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind; Im already cursed.