Top 1200 Empty Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.

As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

I want to be a fighter, this is what I love to do, but it's totally taxing on the body and the mind. Especially the mind.

By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result-fudoshin, the "immovable mind".

The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity, and meaning beyond this mind, but such place does not exist. Everything that appears is this mind, Bodhidharma says.

Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are perceived as ugly and painful. This mechanism gives rise to those states of mind that we are training ourselves to avoid-- things like greed, lust, hatred, aversion, and jealousy.

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

I don't like shopping that much. I do it for an hour, and then I feel empty inside and weird.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.

It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.

God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind.

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

I don't mind genre names. "Chillwave" is probably the last thing I would think of, but I don't mind it.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.

As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

The fact is that when you are in a clean, clear state of mind you will be free to pay full attention to what you are doing and you will therefore naturally do it well. Problems come when you are not living in a natural state of mind. Then, no matter what you are doing your mind will be on something else.

If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.