Top 1200 Silent Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.

Meditation is the study of making the mind still. As your mind becomes still, a power enters you. This power transmogrifies your mind, it escalates your evolution and you begin to cycle through many incarnations in one lifetime.

I know miming means to act without words, but the audience isn t supposed to be silent as well!

Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.

Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his hand. "You're going to get a passive chairman role and a silent board seat. We have some paperwork for you and a recommendation for a lawyer."Jack felt like he had just been hit in the face with a baseball bat. "Say that again," he stuttered to Fred, thinking he had heard incorrectly.Fred repeated himself almost verbatim: We're making Ev CEO. You're getting a passive chairman role. You will have a silent board seat. Here's the paperwork. Call a lawyer.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone's silence.

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang

Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer.

Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.

The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man's foot and stops him forever from advancing.

This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind as us, we are identified with it. This death of mind never happens to us, it never occurs to us.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you have entered the world of nirvana, you have entered the world of light and eternal life. You have attained to spiritual integrity, freedom, and tremendous ecstasy which the mind cannot even dream about.

No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!

With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.

A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.

I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

I think television will do the same thing to radio that talkies did to silent movies.

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.