Mind Quotes - Page 367

From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.

The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.

Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

The forehead is the gate of the mind.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.