Top 1200 Closed Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

It's a big culture of mind control too, MK-Ultra mind control rules in Hollywood. If you don't know that, google it and look into it. It's really hard for artists to find their voice in the media. It's levels of brainwashing and mind control.

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles.... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind?

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.

Behind closed doors, Rob is a real teddy bear, a big softie.

I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.

And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

I am not closed to any new ideas. But films are my first love.

Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.

There's some members of the older generation who have been conditioned with such closed minds.

Go away,” he said. “Do you know you’ve almost no clothes on?” “Never mind. I need—” “Never mind? Listen to me, Miss Innocence. There are many things a man can ‘never mind.’ A nearly naked woman isn’t one of them.

Do not lose your independent mind, unconditioned mind. You have by nature a very powerful mind. You can find everything for yourself; you can know everything for yourself.

There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.

He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there is wild mind, and the Wild mind that actually, as Gary Snyder says, wants to take care of things. There's an elegant quality to the wild mind.

I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.

Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen.

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

Having a kid is great... as long as his eyes are closed and he's not moving or speaking.

That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Generally, you kiss in a closed room but on a film set you have to do it in front of so many people.

Your mind is like a servant to you. Whatever you are being in the midst of your mind, your mind is going to be the same to you.

Just keep in mind the feeling 'I am', merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on the right balance of attention and affection and your mind will be firmly established in the thought-feeling 'I am'. Whatever you think, say, or do, this sense of immutable and affectionate being remains as the ever-present background of the mind.

Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

Women have as much right as men to do whatever they want behind closed doors.

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.