Quotes About Mind

When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.

I am still quick at 250 to 260 lbs and I am smarter.

People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.

It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, man - brilliant mind.

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

In this business I meet so many people. They are all trying to be healthy, but without an inner source they fail. They are not happy with themselves.

I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything's gone, music alone shall live on.

Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time to produce so little.

That said, I'm also sensitive to the limitations of the scientific-materialist perspective and believe that nature (including the human mind) still holds deep mysteries toward which science can sometimes seem arrogant and unjustifiably dismissive.

What to my (spiritually impoverished) mind seemed to constitute a good case for the disenchantment of the world becomes in the minds of the more psychedelically experienced irrefutable proof of its fundamental enchantment. Flesh of the gods, indeed.

it tells me that consciousness is primary to the physical universe.

He quotes an expert on anxiety who suggests we should think of the two disorders as "fraternal twins": "Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss." Both reflect a mind mired in rumination, one dwelling on the past, the other worrying about the future. What mainly distinguishes the two disorders is their tense.

Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss." Both reflect a mind mired in rumination, one dwelling on the past, the other worrying about the future. What mainly distinguishes the two disorders is their tense.

Part of the power of the ego flows from its command of one's rational faculties.)

Baruch Spinoza, who said, "There is no mind absolute or free will, but the mind is determined for willing this or that by a cause which is determined in its turn by another cause, and this one again by another, and so on to infinity.

Reading this dialogue did something good for me. It made me think very hard about this book and revise my thinking about it, as literature has done in my life before. When you associate your mind with greats, your mind improves, your mind goes to new places. As the Jewish Kabbalists said, it's the white between the letters, not the black ink you see, that is important. That's something very hard to comprehend unless you've thought about mysticism.

He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering.

I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.

Imagination is the practice of creativity upon the mind. It is the suspension of restriction hindering one's perception. Unfolding Imagination is essential in overcoming any perceived limits of Self.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.