Quotes About Mind

Success in life is peace of mind, the feeling of having no regrets. It comes from knowing you did your best.

The level of confidence you hold in your ability to perform a task or skill is directly related to the level of certainty you hold in your mind about your ability to do it.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

To write is not necessary to communicate. Communication occur in the mind of the reader.

one of the long-term payoffs of this spiritual path. Even while you still appear to be in your body, it's possible for you to attain psychological invulnerability. As the Course says: The guiltless mind cannot suffer.30 But it takes the illusion of time for you to learn your forgiveness lessons and get to your goal.

and then the incomprehensible power of your mind to make illusions as a perceiver — rather than make spirit as a creator

the ego is just a thought — and thoughts can be changed.

The story of Genesis is the symbolic story of the making of the world and bodies by the unconscious mind for reasons you are not aware of, but which you must become aware of.

You are much too tolerant of mind wandering, and are passively condoning your mind's miscreations.

Your job is to go back to the source of the problem — the mind and not the world — and change your mind through forgiveness.

God, Who is actually real, seems distant and illusory. The world, which is actually illusory, seems immediate and real. For reasons that will be described later, your split mind, which split from the house like the prodigal Son, has unconsciously assigned to God the same qualities that your seemingly separated mind itself possesses. Thus God and the messages that seem to come from Him are conflicted.

whether we are talking about an attitude of learning or spiritual sight, we are always referring to a state of mind — an inner attitude

What truth, what light through my mind's window breaks? It is the east, and the Holy Spirit is the sun Arise my Friend, dissolve the ego moon who is already sick and pale with grief that thou the truth art far more great than he Oh It is the Christ Child, yes It is my Love and if I knew What I was, the brightness of my mind would shame the stars as daylight does a lamp My Mind in Heaven would through the unseen regions stream so bright the world would sing and knoweth not the night

Love Has Forgotten No One is not really a book—rather, it's a portal, a transport system, a rearranging of the mind. When you've finished reading it, I believe you'll be closer to knowing your True Nature.

You know what you are destined to continue to learn from. There is no substitute for reading the Text of the Course and the Workbook, even after you've already done the lessons. Use your mind to choose between the body and true spirit, and by doing so forgive the world. It is through your forgiveness that your ego will be undone.

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do more. Copy many well-said things. Pierce them together. Assimilate them. Make the process of reading them a way to form the mind and shape the soul. As anthologies can never be complete, we will never exhaust the ways quotations can enrich our lives.

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.

It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

The subjective experience of wonder is a message to the rational mind that the object of wonder is being perceived and understood in ways other than the rational.

Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you. Rather than serve the fake gods of your mind, serve your heart, the real God. You will not find God in your intellect. Divine Intelligence is in the heart.

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don't know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously.