Top 1200 Silent Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.

There is an incredible power & intelligence witin you that is constantly responding to your thoughts and words. As you learn to control your mind by the conscious choice of thoughts, you align yourself with this power. Do not think that your mind is in control. You are in control of your mind. You use your mind. You can stop thinking those old thoughts.

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.

It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta, buddha-consciousness: a mind which functions as a no-mind, a mind which dreams no more, thinks no more, a mind which is just awareness, pure awareness.

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live life according to the mind. Mind has rules and regulations, mind has rituals. Live life from the standpoint of no-mind so that you can bloom into unpredictable flowers.

The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of you, and then your mind goes into a trance. You are completely there. It's a real great art; it's not only a business. It's to open the mind, to understand this mystery within reality. This is why we need it.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

My new Boyfriend! Mr. Marmoset Hard and Silent! #peopledontknowthings

An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. On the other hand, hatred, jealousy and fear upset our peace of mind, make us agitated and affect our body adversely. Even our body needs peace of mind and is not suited to agitation. This shows that an appreciation for peace of mind is in our blood.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to Fear all the time, speaking to it with love and respect, saying to it: “I know that you are Fear, and that your job is to be afraid. And you do your job really well! I will never ask you to leave me alone or to be silent, because you have a right to speak your own voice, and I know that you will never leave me alone or be silent, anyhow. But I need you to understand that I will always choose Creativity over you.

Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

...all knowledge exists in the Mind universe of Light - which is God - that all Mind is One Mind, that men do not have separate minds, and that all knowledge can be obtained from the Universal Source of All-Knowledge by becoming One with that Source.

Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.

If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

I would've been a really big silent movie star.

I think our cities' deteriorating infrastructure is a silent crisis.

We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.

Mind alone is the cause of the bondage or freedom of the soul. By the attachment of the mind to the world we become bound; by the devotion of the mind to God presence within as the Soul of every soul, we become free.

If the room falls silent for a moment, all I hear is white noise.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

I have done 'Gutar-Gu,' which was a silent comedy show.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face.

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.