Mind Quotes - Page 312

If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

There's no such thing as part freedom.

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.

With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.

Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

Never practice without a thought in mind.

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.

Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.