Quotes About Mind

Your body may live in a cellar; but it's your own fault if your mind lives there.

PSYCH-K can change long-standing, limiting beliefs in a matter of minutes.

It is not gene-directed hormones and neurotransmitters that control our bodies and our minds; our beliefs control our bodies and our minds, and thus our lives . . . Oh ye of little belief!

La capacidad de la mente consciente de obviar la programación del subconsciente es la base del libre albedrío.

El mayor obstáculo para conseguir el éxito en aquello que soñamos son las limitaciones programadas en el subconsciente. Estas limitaciones no sólo influyen en nuestro comportamiento, sino que también pueden jugar un papel fundamental en nuestra salud y nuestra fisiología. Como hemos visto antes, la mente juega un papel muy importante en el control de los sistemas biológicos que nos mantienen con vida.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

To doubt is to think, and thought is the only thing in the universe whose existence cannot be denied, because to deny is to think.

Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.

Concentration is a form of exclusion, and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle toward a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Too much concentration belittles life. Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind - but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life.

Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being, a sort of "being" vs. having—that is, we do not "have" mind, we are simply mind. We are what we are.

Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man's body, his mind, or his spirit.

Adversity causes the mind to think properly. — In a time when everything goes well, my mind is pampered with enjoyment, possessiveness, etc. Only in times of adversity, privation, or mishap, does my mind function and think properly of my state. This close examination of self strengthens my mind and leads me to understand and be understood.

Relaxation is a physical state, but it is controlled by the mental state. It is acquired by the conscious effort to control the thought as well as the action pattern. It takes perception, practice and willingness to train the mind into new habits of thinking and the body into new habits of action.

With all the training thrown to the wind, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, anybody knows where, the art of Jeet Kune Do attains its perfection.

The spirit is strengthened in sorrow. — Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

A fascinating quality of the human mind is its ability to hold firmly and simultaneously to contradictory ideas. Slave owners were a case in point. They

A fascinating quality of the human mind is its ability to hold firmly and simultaneously to contradictory ideas.