Quotes About Mind

The human world is created out of our minds as much as from the natural environment.

Creativity is the strongest example of the dynamic nature of intelligence, and it can call on all areas of our minds and being.

Existe la fuente de la juventud: se trata de tu mente, de tus talentos, de la creatividad que lleves a tu vida y a la de aquellos a los que amas.

Imagination is the ability to bring to mind things that are not immediately present to our senses.

To make use of our imaginations we need to take them one step further: we need to be creative. If imagination is the ability to bring to mind things that are not present to our senses, then creativity is the process of putting your imagination to work. It is applied imagination

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

The words of an old hymn come to mind: But we make His love too narrow By false limits of our own; And we magnify His strictness With a zeal He will not own. For the love of God is broader Than the measure of the mind; And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. --—Frederick William Faber 1814-1863

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.

The population is ignorant of intrigues and power games, therefore we believe it easy to manipulate, but it is in fact, far more perceptive than many of our great minds.

I could not focus on any one subject for long because my mind was cotton candy, wisps and swirls and strands, without substance.

If inanimate objects are left to stand in their world, and are not invited out to mingle with our sense of self, they will quietly console and delight us. But to bind possessions up closely with the mind is less than fair to both.

We would not deny the mind; but merely remember that as the corrective of wrong thinking is right thinking, the corrective of all thinking is the body.

Your mind, however, remained the same. The memories and thought patterns within it that had been twisted and warped by years of darkness and sin were left perfectly intact. In other words, that brand-new spirit within you suddenly found itself trying to work with a mind that had been totally programmed by the world!

Step number four to receiving answered prayer is guard against every evil thought that comes into your mind to try to make you doubt God's Word. Thoughts are governed by observation, association, and teaching. So this step is closely associated

So God contacts you through your SPIRIT—not through your MIND, and not through your BODY—because He is a Spirit. He's not a mind. He's not a man. The Bible says He isn't. Although He has a spirit-body over in the spirit world (angels do, too), God is not a PHYSICAL being. He is a Spirit. He contacts us through our spirit, and we contact Him through our spirit.

But if you will guard against every evil thought and think only on those things which affirm that God has heard and answered your prayers, you will be cooperating with God in faith. You will have to guard your mind in order to develop in faith. And as you stand your ground firm in faith, your faith will see you through to victory.

It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.

Aboriginal peoples, like the ancients, were not so concerned with the science of matter, but rather with the science of the mind. For to them, the universe was mind, and all that existed as physical reality was the product of mind and spirit. Everything physical and material was in essence, manifested thought.

What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.

If the truth is inside, And the form is outside, What is the truth of sleep?

Body practice is the root of spiritual practice. When we calm the body, the mind can expand without limit.

There is a qigong saying, "When the intent (yi) arrives, the qi [life force] arrives." This means that the more your mind is focused on what you are doing, the more qi you can develop and control.

The fact of life is that the appreciation of true beauty cannot start without total renunciation. [...] But to live beautifully, one needs an unfettered mind, a mind that is not clogged up with all kinds of attachments, opinions, or fossilized ways of looking at things. There is no need to get rid of anything as long as we can sever our attachments to it.

We cannot arrive at the original "I" through rational thought! The Self has to remain forever fuzzy. Indeed, it is the Subject that cannot be observed, the Name that cannot be named, the Word than cannot be spoken, It is the Silence that cannot be comprehended by the rational mind.