Mind Quotes - Page 415

After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.

Its all in the mind, you know.

I'm always open. I try not to have a closed mind. In fact the only reason why I'm able to continue to make films since 1986 is I have been adaptable. If I weren't flexible I sure wouldn't be making films this many years as I've been doing it. I've been making a film a year almost since 1986 and that's hard. That ain't easy.

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters, to everything on which it reflects. And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything, but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next. The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling androlling and rolling.

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.

Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.

I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.

When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.

I'd take telekinesis. I could move things with my mind, and with telepathy I could control other people's minds and make them do whatever I wanted.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.