Mind Quotes - Page 261

Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.

I like to be risky every day, changing minds every day. I'm not reliable at all in my ideas. I can change my ideas three times a day. I change different things, the parts of the content. But I never change the content of who I am. So my challenge every day is to change and to take risks.

Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of mental bubble in which he established himself when he could not bear to be a part of what was going on around him. From it he could see out and judge but in it he was safe from any kind of penetration from without. It was the only place where he felt free of the general idiocy of his fellows. His mother had never entered it but from it he could see her with absolute clarity.

I’m not super-comfortable with it. I feel the less you project of yourself the more you can be believable as a character. I also think it’s just better for your own mental health. Then you can be a human being and change your mind and nobody asks you questions about it!

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.

The kiss that you have never given is just as powerful as hours of actual lovemaking. The erotic isn't just what is happening between people's legs. It is also what's happening in their erotic mind.

Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic - every bit of it. No exceptions.

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.