Quotes About Mind

But the mind is rat's country. If you fall once you could fall again. If the world spins it could never stop spinning.

Memories of past events, traumas, and mistakes live on in our minds and affect how we react to our circumstances today. It may not be a fear of dogs; it may be something more horrific—but a memory can hold you captive, influencing your thinking and the decisions you make.

The torments of my mind and the source of my hell now fit into a prescribed form. They had always had a name.

Lists are the butterfly nets that catch my fleeting thoughts...

I was a child who listened to trees and felt the disappointments of the dead. I had friends but they weren't as real as those invisible things that inhabited secret places in my mind.

For excess breeds hubris, when great prosperity comes to men of unsound mind.16

Albert Einstein put it best: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom.

The logic of human intelligence is absurd

It is rather his mind has so wide a range, and so rich a retention, that he simply cannot understand that ordinary folk do not always follow him. 'I little imagined,' he said, 'that I should find you in the posture of Sir Isaac Newton.' Oh dear, I thought, here it comes again. What on earth was the meaning of *that*? So I just said No... and went fiddling with the oil-squirter, trying to remember things about Newton.

She pushed the revelation about Dr. Kruger into a side pocket of her mind, to be examined more thoroughly another time. Who would ever have suspected that he was shy? That any grownups were, for that matter, and especially a person as important as a doctor?

The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from Karma through renunciation.

Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.

The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Even the mind of the wise man who labours for perfection is carried away by the vehement insistence of the senses, O son of Kunti. (2:60)

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself....

[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.

Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

Living in memories is an empty gesture.

Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.

The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.