State Of Mind Quotes - Page 9

• Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Order, Meditation, Mind

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• Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mind

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• The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Study

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• According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Views, Mind

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• In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Different, Way

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• Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Essence, Mind

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• Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Mind, World

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• Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you a much more accurate picture of reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Reality, Mind

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• In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Realizing, States

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• From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Mind, Enlightenment

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• We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

  Andre Gide

  Joy, Mind, Needs

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, edited by Justin O'Brien, 1964.

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• Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mind, Selfless

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• Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram
  remain inaccessible to this state of mind.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, America, Mind

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If an individual has a calm state of mind,
  that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil
  even in the presence of great agitation.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Views, Mind

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• Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

  Dick Gregory

  Mind, Poverty, Poor

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

  Gunter Grass

  Class, Feelings, Mind

  "From the Diary of a Snail". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

  Herb Caen

  Opportunity, Cities, Ideas

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• One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

  James Agee

  Dry Up, Mind, States

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• Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

  Clive Bell

  Religious, Art, Mean

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Ideas, Mind

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• Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.

  Samuel Ullman

  Spring, Adventure, Mean

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Mind

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• Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Beautiful, Mean

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• From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Emotional, Feelings, Mind

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• Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Determination, Sight, Discovery

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