Top 1200 Training The Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

I do have a chore schedule - in my mind. I dont tell anyone I have it, but its in my mind.

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

The mind...the mind was the most powerful force for and against someone.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

I love a sexy video. I don't even mind raciness. I don't mind that at all.