Top 1200 Restless Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and as far afield as the Great Wall of China. With the restless curiosity and meticulous scholarship that have become her hallmark, the author once again has found a gap in my bookshelf and filled it, admirably.

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 big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.

The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.

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

If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense of relaxation, a vast sense of openness within your mind - which is in fact your natural mind, the naturally unperturbed background against which various thoughts come and go.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.

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

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.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

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.

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

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.

Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness.

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe

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

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

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

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.

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.

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.

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

I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.

Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.

They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If you are not disillusioned by dust, you will not be able to know what truth is. A man obsessed with ambition is not capable of knowing truth at all. Eyes full of ambition never see what is; they only see what they want to see. The ambitious mind is the wrong mind; the non-ambitious mind is the right mind.

You have to fall in love with the production, and then there's a certain mind-set that you develop where it does stay fresh in your mind.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...

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

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

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.

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

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

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.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

I can't imagine living in a house without a couple of dogs. If I ever got out of bed at night and didn't have to step over a Labrador or two or three, or move one off the covers so I could turn over, my nights would be more restless and the demons that wait in the dark for me would be less easily fended.

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

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

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.

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

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

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

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

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.