Quotes About Mind

Lo que ves y escuchas ahora mismo no es más que un sueño. En este mismo momento estás soñando. Sueñas con el cerebro despierto.

We frequently use memory against ourselves, but we have the power to use it differently. Instead, we can let memory enlighten us.

He had spent a lifetime cleansing his mind of poison. He had searched his heart, found the corruption, and removed it. He had torn away the lies—lies he'd been told and had believed, and lies he had devised and used against himself. This was his mastery—the purification of the mind and the recovery of authenticity. This scene symbolized the mastery of death, the awakening.

The word is like a seed, and the human mind is so fertile! The only problem is that too often it is fertile for the seeds of fear.

The outside dream has so many rules that when a new human is born, we hook the child's attention and introduce these rules into his or her mind. The outside dream uses Mom and Dad, the schools, and religion to teach us how to dream.

We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions.

One fear or doubt planted in our mind can create an endless drama of events.

Early in its education every mind learns how to use words to threaten, to punish, and to destroy. If that fact sounded harsh to his apprentices, he had only to remind them of how they spoke to themselves—how they attacked themselves on a daily basis. The mind is its own kind of predator, whether it belongs to the body of a bashful woman or a brawny man.

One way to change your beliefs is to focus your attention on all those agreements and beliefs, and change the agreements with yourself. In doing this you are using your attention for the second time, thus creating the dream of the second attention or the new dream.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty...We don't see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind.

Cuando nos comportamos como niños nos resulta maravilloso porque ese es el estado normal de la mente humana, la tendencia natural.

Every one of our beliefs, from a minimal one like the sound of a letter to a whole philosophy, is using our life force to survive.

Nuestra mente es un sueño en el que miles de personas hablan a la vez y nadie comprende a nadie.

Once again, this poisonous virus is what the Toltecs called the mitote, the chaos of a thousand different voices all trying to talk at once in the mind.

Toda la humanidad busca la verdad, la justicia y la belleza. Estamos inmersos en una búsqueda eterna de la verdad porque sólo creemos en las mentiras que hemos almacenado en nuestra mente. Buscamos la justicia porque en el sistema de creencias que tenemos no existe. Buscamos la belleza porque, por muy bella que sea una persona, no creemos que lo sea. Seguimos buscando y buscando cuando todo está ya en nosotros.

If you can imagine this, perhaps you can understand that someone from another planet who came to visit us would have a similar experience with humans. But it isn't our skin that is full of wounds. What the visitor would discover is that the human mind is sick with a disease called fear.

The mastery of the human mind requires complete control of the attention — the way we interpret and react to information we perceive from inside of us and outside of us.

It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they

Solamente recibirás una idea negativa si tu mente es un campo fértil para ella.

The sense of injustice is like a knife that opens an emotional wound in the mind. Then, according to our reaction to the injustice, the wound may get infected with emotional poison.

I saw humans more clearly. I saw them as exceptional creatures under the tyranny of knowledge, helpless to change their circumstances. The human animal is helpless, that is, until the mind decides to change and until knowledge has lost its supreme authority.

By hooking the attention, the energy goes from one person to another person. The attention is something very powerful in the human mind. Everyone around the world is hunting the attention of others all the time. When we capture the attention, we create channels of communication.

For thousands of years people have believed there is a conflict between good and evil in the universe. But this is not true. The real conflict is between truth and what is not truth. The conflict exists in the human mind, not in the rest of nature. Good and evil are the result of that conflict. Believing in truth results in goodness; believing in and defending what is not truth results in evil. Evil is just the result of believing in lies.

Only by making an inventory of our agreements will we uncover all of the conflicts in the mind and eventually make order out of the chaos of the mitote.