Mind Quotes - Page 228

If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state, I have said again and again that, when there is an apparatus for censorship that filters all writing, an apparatus comes into being in every writer's mind that says: "Don't write this, they won't allow it to be published." But the true writer must ignore these murmurings. The true writer must write. In the end, it will be published one day, on the condition that the writer writes the truth and does not dissemble.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.

The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

Luck has nothing to do with it.

When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.