Top 1200 Silent Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding.

The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.

It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously. On the surface of the sea are multitudes of waves, but the sea is not affected below. In the deepest depths, at the bottom of the sea is all tranquility. So when you start meditating, try to feel your own inner existence first. That is to say, the bottom of the sea: calm and quiet. Feel that your whole being is surcharged with peace and tranquility.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

But if Satan speaks sometimes, God keep silent, always. We have to find the answers alone.

Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to know it from within, from your witnessing self. The more you become aware, the more you can watch your mind - its subtle functioning. The functioning is tremendously complex and beautiful. Mind is the most complex phenomenon on the earth, the most subtle flowering of consciousness. If you want to really understand what the mind is, then you will have to detach yourself from your mind, and you will have to learn how to be just a witness. That's what meditation is all about.

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

There are no a priori obstacles to the scientific knowledge of the mind, but the scientific knowledge of the mind is not all the knowledge of the mind that there is. This is not an objection to science, it is just a distinction between different kinds of knowledge.

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

Even the ignorant may appear very worthy, If they keep silent before the learned.

We must overcome our cultural barriers that giving should be a private and silent activity.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn't want to hear from it, it got chatty. It was alost as irritating as Fang.

The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind. It is most important to let the mind "flow," with less mental worry about, and attachment to, the various thoughts that may come into the mind.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.