Mind Quotes - Page 227

Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are ordered by forces that are beyond the ability of our rational mind to understand or control.

Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences, never understanding the connection between outer and inner phenomena or interdependent phenomena, looking for explanations only from objects through nihilist habit instead of from the subjective experience of their own minds.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.

I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.

When the mind is clear, behavior is always impeccable.

Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

I don't care how far we've come with "women's liberation," with all these things. In a man's mind, he still needs to be the support of his family. He needs to hold up the world.

Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.

Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park in the passing lane?

There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.