Mind Quotes - Page 441

To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

Keep in mind that your individual vote doesn't mean anything.

If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.

Your every act can open hearts and minds.

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.

The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

I am a person of action. If I see I can bring a positive change, I will go for it, never mind that something might be hard to achieve.

Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.

A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.