Quotes About Mind

There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.

There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

I can't remember names and things.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

If we're really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate.

Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.

We're all building our narratives in our heads.

I don't know if it's a legacy, but I love it. In my mind and other people's minds, they know I was the first to stylize the national anthem.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

There are a lot of elements when you're writing, or when I'm writing, that are sitting in the back of your mind. I try to let them stay there, because they find their way in more naturally that way.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

My biggest competition is myself and my two natures.

In many ways, a race is analogous to life itself. Once it is over, it can not be re-created. All that is left are inpressions in the heart, and in the mind.

He saw a white figure and wondered if it was a ghost. He'd never seen one before. Depending on who it was, he might not mind too much. Still, it was disconcerting.

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.

Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

When we use our mind, not our brain, to think, to imagine, to plan, to wonder about existence, we are drawing upon the Taoversal consciousness that streams through us.

Consciousness is in your brain, your mind, and your body. And because that is true, you are the transmission - and - receiving station for communication with Tao.

The problem with scientific speculations is that the correct answers to our questions will always elude us as long as we continue using equations to attempt to explain what can only be perceived by the mind using its faculty to perceive input from Tao.

At the alpha level, your imagination acts powerfully on your subconsciousness mind and therefore your imaginings are powerfully effective in producing the desired result. It is believed that our subconscious mind represents nearly 90 percent of our mental capacity, which is why influencing your subconscious mind produces such powerful effects.