Quotes About Mind

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

Robert T. Richardson, Jr. Henry Thoreau, A Life of the Mind. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1986

experience over there. That experience looks very pleasant. Let's go there." The aversive mind, on the other hand, says, "I hate the way it is right now. This is very, very unpleasant. Get me out of here!" The aversive mind pushes away the unpleasant.

Krishna would continue. He would teach Mom that grasping and aversion are twins: They are mirror images of each other. They both involve a rejection of how it is in this moment. The grasping mind says, "I long for that

aversion has exactly the same deleterious effects on the mind as grasping does. Remember our friends disturbance, obscuration, and separation? Yep. The aversive mind is visited by each of them.

at the heart of the unconscious mind there is a panoramic intelligence that is deeply connected with fundamental human consciousness.

Because this principle is so important, and because Arjuna is so very likely to lose his tenuous grasp on it, Krishna reminds him over and over again throughout their dialogue. "The disunited mind is far from wise," he nudges. The mind "must overcome the confusion of duality.

The cultivation of this quality of "evenness" is a central principle of the Bhagavad Gita. It is called samatva in Sanskrit, and it is a central pillar of Krishna's practice. When the mind develops steadiness, teaches Krishna, it is not shaken by fear or greed.

To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive anything but noise in data.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

differed sharply from Eddy's conviction that the human mind, far from being a potentially curative agent, was the cause of disease rather than its cure.

Words are worms, can live in your head for years if you let them in.

The brain that we think of as a necessity for intelligence is only one possible form a neural network can take and that is determined by ecological function and species shape; it is not essential to intelligence. As neurologist Antonio Damasio puts it, "the mind is embodied, not just embrained.

How much of life have I wasted by believing the thing I was taught, that thinking is what makes us better, that the brain is superior to heart. —AUTHOR'S JOURNAL, JUNE 2001

A rich sensory experience occurs during such dreaming but what you were not doing to any great extent was paying attention to the complex visual field that surrounded you as you dreamed. You were, at an unconscious level, restricting the amount of visual sensory information that flowed into your conscious mind.

The emotional response to each tiny incoming sensory bit can tell the conscious mind if you pay attention to how you feel in the same way that musicians pay attention to sound a considerable amount about the meaning inside every particular sensory input that you experience.

Interestingly, the word, intelligence, comes from the Latin phrase inter legere—it means, simply, "to choose.

You should never denigrate the form in which your perceptions arise, never think yourself less-than, if you do not use scientific metaphors. Each of us must reclaim our ability to know the world directly, deeply and well. (Any feeling of less-than is merely a symptom of the colonization of your mind.) Don't leave it in the hands of experts. That is how we got into this mess in the first place.

human beings are not single egos but are instead composed of multiple ego states. multiple personality disorder is only a pathological expression of a general condition

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.

the point is that this experiment proves thought and knowledge are not confined within the brain. Quantum physicists say it's part of the whole. Anyone

The truth is that thoughts, perceptions, and memories, actually occur somewhere else and then are received and processed by the brain in a way similar to how a cell phone or radio receiver works.

University of Virginia—have collected that demonstrate that consciousness can exist without a brain being involved.