Clear Minds Quotes - Page 2

I'm looking forward to going out at the concert with a clear head, with a clear mind, with a clear spirit and experiencing whatever it is. It's great.

Lenny Kravitz

Clear Head, Mind, Going Out

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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

Byron Katie

Phones, Mind, Email

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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

Zhuangzi

Encouragement, Anxiety, Mind

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Despite his unimpressive appearance and manner, he was a brilliant fellow with a crystal-clear mind.... It was just that, when it came time for him to act like an executive, he was like a great many other people; when the time comes to make decisions, they have difficulty doing it.

Harry S. Truman

People, Decision, Mind

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Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.

David Allen

Mind, Reactions, Clear

Twitter post from Sep 09, 2009

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If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

Bodhidharma

Truth, Break Through, Understanding

Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

Vince Cable

Government, Mind, Done

"The Saturday interview: Vince Cable" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

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In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.

Frederick Lenz

Powerful, Health, Buddhism

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Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.

Viswanathan Anand

Prayer, Play, Games

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I love playing basketball because you could be having a rough day in your life, and while you're on the court it gives you a clear mind. I'm not worried about anything. I'm there just playing freely and I go out there all and I have fun.

Derrick Rose

Basketball, Fun, Giving

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Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as good if you keep a clear mind. But if you don't keep a clear mind, and are only following your thinking as you mouth the words, even the Buddha cannot help you.

Seungsahn

Christian, Buddhist, Thinking

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Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.

Deepak Chopra

Stress, Meditation, Anxiety

"Questions About Meditation You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask, Explained By Deepak Chopra". Interview with Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. August 7, 2014.

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Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes froma weak hand and is imperfectly formed, it inspires the ethical spirit to constantly renewed creation.

Stefan Zweig

Inspirational, Hands, Inspire

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Watchfulness is the path of immortality:
Unwatchfulness is the path of death.
Those who are watchful never die:
Those who do not watch are already as dead.
Those who with a clear mind have seen this truth,
Those who are wise and ever watchful,
They feel the joy of watchfulness,
The joy of the path of the great.
And those who in high thought and in deep contemplation
With ever living power advance on the path,
They in the end reach NIRVANA,
The peace supreme and infinite joy.
~ Buddha

Juan Mascaro

Wise, Meditation, Joy

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If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.

Stephen Mitchell

Mind, Traffic, Clear

Stephen Mitchell (1994). “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn”, p.34, Grove Press

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