Mind Quotes - Page 329

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.

It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.