Quotes About Mind

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

Father, we long for the clarity of Your truth to dawn upon our minds and for the immensity of Your love to grip our hearts.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

The unconditioned mind intuits truth.

An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.