Mind Quotes - Page 397

Endlessly amused by people's minds.

How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.

The mind is an untrained child you got to teach what to do.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is a fascinating story about the unexpected ways in which our minds and bodies are connected.

Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was. . . . For it is those things - and only those things - that made him what he was. . . . You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

As soon as I wake up I pay homage to the Buddha, and I try to prepare my mind to be more altruistic, more compassionate, during the day to come so I can be of benefit to beings. Then I do physical exersice - I walk on a treadmill.

Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy

An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.

If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the presence of great agitation.

We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility is to be found. And peace of mind turns out to be a significant factor in our physical health too.

We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.

Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.

If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.