Mind Quotes

• The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.

  

  Kelsang Gyatso
  • Experience
  • True
  • Happy

• I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Started

• The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Real
  • Everyday

• 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
  • Job

• You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Truth
  • Soul

• In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

  

  James Meade Kutless
  • Work
  • Mind
  • War

• The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Impression
  • Capable
  • Conclusion

• There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

  

  Bill de Blasio
  • People
  • Strong
  • Listening

• The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Running
  • Evil
  • Unhappiness

• Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Gift

• The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

  

  James Allen
  • Good
  • Power
  • Success

• Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Good
  • Stop

• While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Peace
  • Friend
  • Farewell

• If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Worry

• After I get comfortable, I kind of forget that we're even doing an interview and I say whatever comes to the mind.

  

  John Corbett
  • Mind

• By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Words
  • Law
  • Alone

• To be honest, I don't mind talking about my experiences in life, but details aren't for everyone.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Life
  • Mind

• ...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • World
  • Light
  • Simple

• In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • Life
  • Home
  • Joy

• Never mind what makes Canada's constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.

  

  Kevin Bleyer
  • Mind
  • Hockey

• For one who sees the distinction, there is no further confusing of the mind with the self.

  

  Patanjali
  • Mind

• The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Mind

• Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weatherof mind got clarity new-found;now free, I once more weave togetheremotion, thought, and magic sound.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Magic

• The Bush administration actually started out with an open mind towards Iran, by all indications. In fact, early in the administration, the White House tasked the various agencies of government to do an inter-agency review of Iran policy, as it did with Iraq policy and most of the big areas of the world.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • World
  • Mind
  • House

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