Quotes About Mind

When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Usually we think of our mind as receiving impressions and experiences from outside, but that is not a true understanding of our mind. The true understanding is that the mind includes everything; when you think something comes from outside it means only that something appears in your mind.

Enlightenment is not some good feeling or some particular state of mind. The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is, itself, enlightenment. If you cannot be satisfied with the state of mind you have in zazen, it means your mind is still wandering about. Our body and mind should not be wobbling or wandering about. In this posture there is no need to talk about the right state of mind. You already have it. This is the conclusion of Buddhism.

Ohne Bewegung wird der Mensch zu einem unansehnlichen Bündel grauen Fleisches, denn keiner hat die Fähigkeit, sich durch seinen Verstand lebendig zu halten.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Thoughts are funny little things,They can make paupers or make kings.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

Tempted to put too much faith in the great male mind, remember this: It looked at cats and declared them gods. It looked at women and asked, Are they human? And, once that nut had been cracked: But do they have souls?

Dunkle problemer er lys og luft for vår stribare rase. Hissige diskusjoner er et tegn på sunnhet og fred i sinnet. Problemer vokser opp av alt som skjer. De klekkes ut av vinterkulden, de blomstrer frem av sommervarmen, de oppstår av velvære og illebefinnende, av ensomhet og menneskevrimmel.

If he controls your ideas he will soon control your actions, because every action is preceded by an idea.

Spolveriamoci il cuore e non pensiamoci più.

You will find that the dullest, most functionally illiterate mental mushroom has a very definite, very "scientific" view on one thing: the impossibility of any kind of psychic phenomena.

Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.

Reflection opens the avenue to criticism, and the folkways may not like criticism. In this way, ideologies become closed circles, primed to feel outraged by the questioning mind.

I cannot climb out onto the nature of your mind. So how then do I know anything about your mental life? How do I know, for instance, that you see the colour blue the way that I do? Might it be that some of us feel pain more, but make less fuss about it, or that others feel pain less, but make more fuss?

A system of thought is something we live in, just as much as a house, and if our intellectual house is cramped and confined, we need to know what better structures are possible. The

A great beauty is a muse for the mind, a great mind a muse for the soul.

There's nothing like a major emergency and the almost certain death of the whole damned world to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

If they could only have gathered their thoughts for a moment, they would have known these fears weren't real