Mind Quotes - Page 13

• Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ignorance, Differences, Privacy

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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  When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Perfect, Perfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.58, editionNEXT.com

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• The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Truth, Heart, Path

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• You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom.

  Tara Brach

  Healing, Unique, Listening

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.70, Bantam

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• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Color, Sea, Waves Breaking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844). “The Spanish Student: A Play in Three Acts”, p.50

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Evil, Giving, Decision

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.208

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• Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Past, Endurance, Unbearable

  Marcus Aurelius (1997). “Meditations”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

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• Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Exercise, Weather

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• There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

  Lucretia Mott

  Lying, Civilization, Organized Mind

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• I dont agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam... To me, the key conflict is between irrational blind faith and rational, logical minds.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Thinking, Keys, Two

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• ...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

  David Ricardo

  Honesty, Powerful, Thinking

  David Ricardo (1952). “Works and Correspondence: Letters, 1816-1818”, University Press

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• The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Our World, Action, Ancestor

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• You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Growth, Way

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• The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.

  Noah Webster

  Education, Boys, Political

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• The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Needs, Christianity

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• There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

  Homer

  Women, Evil, Bent

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• Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Learning, Science, Advancement

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• Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems, from personal problems to global problems is the absence of love. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor. Love creates the feeling of oneness among people. It unifies a nation and its people. Love creates a sense of unity while hatred causes division. Egotism and hatred cuts people's minds into pieces. Love should rule. There is no problem which love cannot solve.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Cutting, Oneness

  Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 4”, p.239, M A Center

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• Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Giving Up, Self

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 4”, p.237, M A Center

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• As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Ideas, True Happiness

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• Sin is more dangerous than wild bears, more deadly than blazing forest fires. Ask Nebuchadnezzar, who lost his mind because he refused to deal with his pride. Ask Samson, who was reduced to a pathetic shred of a man because he never got control over the lusts of his flesh. Ask Achan and Ananias and Sapphira, who all lost their lives over “small,” secret sins.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pride, Men, Fire

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.75, Moody Publishers

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• If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Heart, Eye, World

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.

  Bill Crawford

  Brain, Purpose, Want

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