Quotes About Mind

When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.

The light of that jet, overhead, is my mind I'm seeing so scintillant, unreachable. I am never where my body is.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

The hypnagogic state is considered by many to be a genius state, without boundaries or any limitations.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

Gekkenhuizen worden gebouwd om mensen die er niet opgesloten zitten te laten geloven dat ze nog bij hun verstand zijn. (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)

Chi può dirci dove si trova il confine tra la pazzia e la ragione? Dove la mente umana cessa di essere ordinata? Dove comincia e dove finisce la facoltà di sentire e di discernere tra il dolore autentico e quello dovuto solo all'autosuggestione, tra la vera gioia e quella fittizia?

Non ha notato che in Shakespeare i pazzi sono le uniche persone assennate? Così anche nella vita non si può mai sapere dove si celi la follia e dove l'assennatezza; parimenti non sappiamo se la realtà è un sogno o il sogno è la realtà. Io propendo a considerare sani di mente quelli che vengono chiamati pazzi. Il vero buon senso viene considerato 'pazzia pericolosa'.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

I opened the book to the title page, which said the book was "A Fictional Memoir." I had no idea what this meant, except that maybe it was one of the ways that Exley was crazy: maybe when he called his book a fictional memoir, it meant that he couldn't make up his mind, which is one of the things people really mean when they call someone crazy.

Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?

Thoughts create our pain. Byron

The Word of God needs to saturate our minds if we want to know and follow God's will.

He remarked that thinking often spoils everything and that evil usually begins with our thoughts.

O my GOD, since Thou art with me, and I must now, in obedience to Thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, I beseech Thee to grant me the grace to continue in Thy Presence; and to this end do Thou prosper me with Thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections.

That in his trouble of mind, he had consulted nobody, but knowing only by the light of faith that GOD was present, he contented himself with directing all his actions to Him, i.e., doing them with a desire to please Him, let what would come of it. That useless thoughts spoil all: that the mischief began there; but that we ought to reject them, as soon as we perceived their impertinence to the matter in hand, or our salvation; and return to our communion with GOD.

The mountain receives our expressions and becomes part of us; we imprint our memories upon it and trust it with out dearest divisions of out lives. Mt. Rainier does not exist under our feet. Mt. Rainier lives in our minds

Falling water has always been a healing balm when I find myself with a despairing mind and cracking soul. The winter rains of Puget Sound, which never start and stop but only drizzle on, signal the cool comfort of home.

Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

The mind wants to see what we believe, so it clings to things that support those beliefs—that worldview—and ignores things that don't. But trauma shatters this inner landscape. Your worldviews are broken to pieces.

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Music, laughter, dancing (even a party for one), knitting, cooking—finding what naturally soothes you not only regulates your heart and mind, it helps you stay open to the goodness in you and in the world.

And you can go to places in your head and imagine things in the future in ways that a lot of people have a hard time doing. That's dissociation. It's healthy, healing, and productive. That is why people need to be careful about labeling dissociation as a pathology, as strictly negative behavior. It can also be an incredible strength.