Mind Quotes - Page 356

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.

Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness.

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

The eyes get in the way of the mind.

The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.