State Of Mind Quotes - Page 24

• Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Real, Lying, Mind

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.17, Tharpa Publications US

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• Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, States

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• Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Practice

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• Tantric Zen is a state of mind

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, States

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• There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Together

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• Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.

  Edna O'Brien

  Country, Philosophy, Odds

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• I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Thinking, Creating, Mind

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• Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Country, Lying, America

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

  Andrew Young

  Thinking, Mind, Wealth

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• Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

  Andrew Weil

  Mind, Tools, Achieve

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• If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight it, then they'll have a much easier time rather than being sort of frustrated and confused otherwise. But if you get in the right state of mind it really does work quite well.

  David Cronenberg

  Confused, Fighting, Frustrated

  "David Cronenberg On Cosmopolis". Interview with Luke Goodsell, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. August 17, 2012.

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• In my films quite often, paranoia usually leads to the truth so it is kind of a psychological state of mind to think that what you fear may come true, and those are the types of stories that I like to tell.

  Larry Fessenden

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

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• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It's about finding that little part of you that's unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.

  Jason Segel

  Unique, Men, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Mind, Aikido, Posture

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

  Paul Theroux

  Grace, Mind, Hawaii

  Observer, London, October 29, 1989.

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• In trusting, we let ourselves go. We know that all kinds of unexpected events may come our way. Our tension eases, our mind and our hearts open spontaneously to be possibilities. It is an ever new state of mind, in the present moment, because we have detached from all we know. But it is also a feeling as old as can be, because, before all betrayals and all disappointments, there was a time in which trusting another was the very substance of our life.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Heart

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• Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

  FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Mar 22, 2014

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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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• No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Men, Imagination

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Mind, Simple Life

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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• I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Drug, Mind

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• She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.

  Charles Frazier

  Mind, Age, Literature

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.328, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no flash of thought or opinion makes a barrier between us.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Running, Giving, Mind

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• In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Confused, Confusion, Ego

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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