Mind Quotes

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he or she has been born -- the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to he accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it be-devils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

~ Aldous Huxley

Free your mind from the prison of your past. Time has allowed you to grow and develop into the person you're meant to be. Now, you are living a purposed filled life.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower.

~ Bankei Yotaku

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

~ Criss Jami

Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?

~ Christmas Humphreys

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

~ Zhuangzi

Try not to turn your mind into your worst enemy of progress.

~ Hafiz

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

~ Chris Matakas

Fears and worries originate in the mind. Love and joy originate from the soul.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Let your imagination takes you to where you wish to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your mind can only be as strong as the words that you repeatedly feed to it.

~ Hafiz

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.

~ Idries Shah

It is either you control your thoughts or be controlled by them.

~ Hafiz

Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

~ Raheel Farooq

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it, it is his next step.

~ Idries Shah

Your mind is a wonderful tool for creating what your soul wants. Use the tool, don't let it use you.

~ Dan O Donnell

Negative thoughts and beliefs absolutely don't belong in that amazing beautiful mind of yours.

~ Hafiz

To put it differently, as long as mind and heart are caught up in want, in desire, there must be emptiness.You want things, ideas, persons, only when you are conscious of your own emptiness, and that wanting creates a choice.When there is craving there must be choice, and choice precipitates you into the conflict of experiences.You have the capacity to choose, and thereby you limit yourself by your choice. Only when mind is free from choice is there liberation.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome.

~ Deepak Chopra

Happiness is nothing but a blissful feeling that can only be activated when positive thoughts and beliefs are constantly dwelling in one's mind.

~ Hafiz

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.

~ Stanley Milgram

In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

~ James Dickey

Every mind should reflect to touch the green of life through trees.

~ Munia Khan

The theory of emptiness…is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

Positive people know what they are about to do and why. Because of this, when they are being haunted by the premature quest to give up, they focus their minds onto the joy of accomplishing their pursuits.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Picture a girl with her arms full of small packages, too many to hold all at once. When they topple and fall all around her, she stoops down and scoops them all back up, literally re-collecting all the gifts that are already hers. To set your mind is to recollect truth that already belongs to you.

~ Emily P. Freeman

I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find that weighing vegetables, passing the time of day with customers, fighting or loving Mary, coping with the children-- none of these prevents a second and continuing layer of thinking, wondering, conjecturing. Surely this must be true of everyone. Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

~ John Steinbeck

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world…concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects.

~ Julian Jaynes

Our brains want God even as our minds debunk the divine.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right?

~ Jonathan Harnisch

The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart.

~ Hermann Hesse

You have no minute to spare... All you have is to dare! It should be at the back of your mind to beware...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage.

~ James Joyce

The mind is matter in and of itself, but I don't mind, and it doesn't matter.

~ Zenfex

The properties of mind are not purely mental: They are shaped in crucial ways by the body and brain and how the body can function in everyday life. The embodied mind is thus very much of this world. Our flesh is inseparable from what Merleau-Ponty called the flesh of the world and what David Abram refers to as the-more-than-human-world. Our body is intimately tied to what we walk on, sit on, touch, taste, smell, see, breathe, and move within. Our corporeality is part of the corporeality of the world.

~ George Lakoff

A mind that establishes indifference is the mind that builds failure.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It works...conditioning your mind to see something positive in anything! Anything that happens to you, anything said to you, anything said about you.I have the choice to INTERPRET it in a way that is positive.Surefire way to imbibe Pollyana attitude !

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

To think is to have doubt....yet even thinking will bring you to no thought....eventually.

~ Vivian Amis