Top 1200 Peaceful Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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.

I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I've also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It's peaceful and awesome.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

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

It was a beautiful, harmonious, peaceful-looking planet, blue with white clouds, and one that gave you a deep sense of home, of being, of identity. It is what I prefer to call instant global consciousness.

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

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

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

Meeting my daughter for the first time was the most special moment of my life. They laid Julia on my chest in the delivery room, and my heart completely melted. She was just so peaceful.

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

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

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

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

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

We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.

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

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

Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.

Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds.

We absolutely want to harness nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. There should be no doubt about Saudi Arabian intentions. Whatever we do is going to be under strict compliance with international agreements.

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

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

I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.

The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.

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

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open. That’s because the essence of mind is empty. It’s wide open and free

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

I love driving around Hancock Park. I think it was designed in the 1920s, and it still has that feel. The streetlamps and trees that line the streets are all the same. It's beautiful and peaceful, and it's right in the middle of L.A.

For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good things - when people finally accept that there is no free will.

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

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

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

Women always look for a peaceful solution to a conflict. They are more sensible when they go for compromise or when they stand by their position. They are ready to listen to different views, to hear all the voices in society.

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

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

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

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

We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

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

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.

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