Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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• The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Life
  • Mind
  • King

• Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Falling

• Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Exist

• I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Girl

• The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • Mind
  • True
  • Science

• All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Mind
  • Emotional
  • Conviction

• A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Best

• I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Trying

• An anti-abortion conference goer says, 'Well, don't you believe that life begins at inception?' I say, 'No. I believe that life begins when you mind your own fucking business!'

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Sparrow: Oh my God. I'm a trained professional. I can't believe I didn't see it sooner! The mind games... the use of isolation... the accusations about being unfaithful... the obsessive keeping track... preventing the other person from getting a job... Stuart, we're in an abusive relationship with the Bush administration!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Of course we know that an untroubled state of mind cannot last. So we say that inspiration comes and goes but really it is there all the time waiting for us to be untroubled again. We can therefore say that it is pervasive. Young children are more untroubled than adults and have many more inspirations.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Mind

• The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I was saddened, of course, but felt a sense of relief that he was at last free from the indignity of aging.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Free

• I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Mind
  • Bored

• I think everyone needs to mind their own business.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Mind
  • Business

• As a chef, I always have in mind how to properly feed the public, but at times it's easy to forget that some people have trouble even getting any food, much less adequate nutrition.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Food

• I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

  

  Alex Rocco
  • Mind
  • Training
  • California

• Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Lying

• No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

  

  Charisma Carpenter

• Tell Papa I'm a communist, but a bad communist. I use a lipstick made by a Russian noble, Prince Matchabelli. (It sounds Italian though.).

  

  Christina Stead
  • Lipstick
  • Communist
  • Russian

• Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to support you.

  

  Amisha Patel
  • Believe
  • Support

• Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Mind
  • Purpose
  • Mastery