Mind Quotes - Page 280

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised.

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.

The trouble with water-and there is trouble with water-is that they're not making any more of it. They're not making any less, mind, but no more either. There is the same amount of water in the planet now as there was in prehistoric times.

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.