Quotes About Mind

Has your discerning mind just served to drive you mad?

When the mind thinks that it knows, it creates a story. And it makes the person believe the fairy tale. But when it is confused, it has no story to tell you. So you are, for a brief moment, free to learn the truth. Independent of the mind.

Man does not seek world peace. He seeks self-peace.

One can live the whole of his life within it. It is way to accessing the whole of one's genius. It is the way to unending peace. It is the holy grail of human existence.

The world refers to this state as resulting from a calm mind. But actually this is not the case. In such otherworldly experiences, it is not that the mind has been calmed or tamed. It is that, for a small fraction of time, the mind has disappeared! This is the state of No-Mind. The Japanese call it Mushin. It was referred to in the Tom Cruise movie, The Last Samurai. No-Mind is the gateway to Atmamun.

You've always been told to fight for your freedom Of mind. But the truth is this: the greatest freedom in the world is freedom From mind.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

The brain is so intricate. It can do so many things, and people sleep on it. It's not just a piece of meat in there - it can do so much.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.

Well I invented horrorcore rap actually. When I did 'Chuckie' and when I did 'Mind of a Lunatic' - there was nothing like that.

The more you invest in your health, the less you have to cover up it all up!

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

There never was a war that was not inward.

iphone therefore I am.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

If I'm thinking about work, it's easier to block the irrational thoughts out of my mind.