Quotes About Mental state

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

Por eso el acto de dar debe de ser alegre — el estado mental debe de ser aquel en que sientes felicidad en el acto de dar. Entonces la energía detrás del dar se incrementa muchas veces más.

Since attention is generally considered an internally generated state, it seems that neuroscience has tiptoed up to a conclusion that would be right at home in the canon of some of the Eastern philosophies: introspection, willed attention, subjective state—pick your favorite description of an internal mental state—can redraw the contours of the mind, and in so doing can rewire the circuits of the brain, for it is attention that makes neuroplasticity possible.

The explanatory gap has never been bridged. And the inescapable reason is this: a neural state is not a mental state. The mind is not the brain, though it depends on the material brain for its existence (as far as we know). As the philosopher Colin McGinn says, "The problem with materialism is that it tries to construct the mind out of properties that refuse to add up to mentality.

I lived on dread;

Enmity is a mental state, our task is to transform the enmity between Kim and Trump into deep friendship.

If I'm in a good place, then I'm really open-minded to what's being presented, but if I'm in a bad place, I'm much more closed-minded.

Psychedelics exert their effects by a complex blending of three factors: set, setting, and drug.

I can't tell anymore when I'm asleep and when I'm awake, or which is worse.

He was always inclined to be a moody man, very exuberant when things were going right, very depressed when they weren't.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

Now it occurred to him the changes of mental state that might be important were just such minor things as this abnormal irritability. Not so dramatic as visions and fevers, maybe. But important. An attitude of carelessness, or annoyance, clouded your judgment, and that was not a good thing in the woods.

May knew John had a very bad tendency, when things got unusually difficult, to sink with an almost sensuous pleasure into a warm bath of despair. Once you've handed the reins over to despair, to mix a metaphor just a teeny bit, your job is done. You don't have to sweat it any more, you've taken yourself out of the game. Despair is the bench, and you are warming it.

You think that the mental anguish you are experiencing is a permanent condition, but for the vast majority of people it is only a temporary state. (But what if I'm special? What if I'm in the minority?)

I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.

I was a little crazy. But I wasn't crazy in any complicated manner.

I feel kind of normal," I say. "Normal but a little crazy.

The viewpoint is that it is simply the logical structure of the algorithm that is significant for the 'mental state' it is supposed to represent, the particular physical embodiment of that algorithm being entirely irrelevant.

except that a fugue was marked by lassitude while a trance could sometimes be accompanied by activity, such as masturbating or talking.

we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

In case you were unaware, "woke" is a term used by urban teens to describe a mental state in which one believes they are cognizant of how the world really works but instead wouldn't have a clue if it slapped them in the face. Saying that someone is "woke" is a hip way of saying that they suffer from late-stage Dunning-Kruger effect.)