Mind Quotes - Page 460

The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.

The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave, not be spontaneous; in which a pattern has to be followed, not the overflow of life and energy. That's why the mind thinks and decides everything, because there is danger.

Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.

I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.

No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.

If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind.

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

Future is your projection of unfulfilled desires. The more unfulfilled you are, the bigger a future you have. The more unfulfilled is your being, the richer the dreams you have of the future. But it is just in your mind.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.

The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.