Top 1200 Monkey Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I am completely of the school that mind is entirely the manifestation of brain. So when there's a change in mind, there's got to be a neurobiological underpinning.

Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

I do have a chore schedule - in my mind. I dont tell anyone I have it, but its in my mind.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

The mind...the mind was the most powerful force for and against someone.

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

I love a sexy video. I don't even mind raciness. I don't mind that at all.

Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind is in its own place and in each of us lies an inner life, the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear, and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another's minds

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

My mind... It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered with.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.

The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.

I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.

So…that’s like your pet monkey?” – Nick (The tiny horse snorted flames and whinnied at him.) “Easy, girl. You’d do well to show her respect. She can understand you, and she doesn’t take well to insults.” – Death “Sorry, Flicka. Didn’t mean to rattle your bridle.” – Nick

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind