Mind Quotes - Page 264

Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others.

Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme. Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas will be reduced only when the mind's agitations, vikshepas are quietened. As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

My own mind is my own church.

Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the world? I can't. And we all have equal wisdom, so if I can do it then I know that anyone can do it if their mind is open to answering just four simple questions and beginning there.

You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe.

The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

Once I get in my mind that it's going to go "da da da dadada da da," then it's kind of like filling in the blanks.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something, it’s being happy with who you are.

I never did mind about the little things.

When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean without waves. Within this stability a thought arises. This thought is like a wave which forms on the surface of the ocean. When we leave this thought alone, do nothing with it, not "seizing" it, it subsides by itself into the mind where it came from.

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.