Mind Quotes - Page 31

• In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Degrees

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Love Life, Ego

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• The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Buddhist, Philosophical

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• Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Reality

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• The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Empty

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• Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Finals

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• What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Being There

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• It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Fighting, Buddhism

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• There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, People

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• The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Teaching, Exercise, Men

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• We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Psychics, Soul

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.33, Aeterna Press

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• That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

  Aristotle

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

  Aristotle

  Soul, Body, Faculty

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Knowing, Soul

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1497, Catholic Way Publishing

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• In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

  Aristotle

  Two, Evil, Soul

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.

  Narendra Modi

  Reality, Government, India

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• Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Long, Climate

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• Their thought is India is a beehive (Madhumakhi Ka Chhata) but our thought is India is our Mother (Maata). Their thought is poverty is a state of mind, our thought is that the poor are manifestation of Almighty. Their thought is to divide and rule, our thought is to integrate and do development. Their soch is Vanshvaad, our soch is Rashtravaad. They say Rajneeti is everything, we say Rashtraneeti is everything. Your thought is to save the chair, our thought is to save the nation.

  Narendra Modi

  Mother, Development, Politics

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• ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.

  Esme Wynne-Tyson

  Thinking, Quality, Greater

  Esme Wynne Tyson (1949). “The Unity of Being”

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• Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

  Sonia Orwell

  Poetry, Painting, Poetry Is

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• This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole,
  and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what
  kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one
  who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are
  according to the nature of which thou art a part.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Bears, Kind

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.23, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.

  Maimonides

  Real, Reading, Believe

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.159, Aeterna Press

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• Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

  Paul Begala

  Finest, Century

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• The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?"

  Betty Friedan

  Years, Wife, House

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan. Chapter 1: "The Problem That Has No Name", opening lines, 1963.

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• I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

  Sarah Waters

  Wall, Victorian

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