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Mind Quotes
"Spend some time alone every day."
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"When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts."
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"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to."
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"In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember."
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"Consciousness is the only home of which we know."
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"Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of the mind. Do you follow? When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind."
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"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
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"What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same."
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"Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.And mind can only see things that already written in heart."
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"When you are cursed with a bipolar mind racing thoughts are the ones that you find."
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"Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning."
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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
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"The mind is so powerful that is can suddenly grow wings of imagination and fly in the open sky."
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"Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories."
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"Thought is the greatest of pleasures -pleasure itself is only imagination-have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?"
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"Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds."
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"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."
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"Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts."
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"Like imagination, consciousness has no limits."
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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."
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"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing."
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"Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror."
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"Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind."
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"It is only in alert silence that truth can be."
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"All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are."
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"Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently."
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"All of us share conscious recognition of our individual self. Each of us is more than a product of our conscious thoughts. The dictation of our unconscious mind also affects our behavior. The unconsciousness cogitates upon problems that are too harsh to submit to conscious resolution. The unconscious mind frequently directs us to take action that a rational, conscious mind would eschew. Resembling a two-sided coin, both our conscious and unconscious minds contribute to our thought processes. Collaborative thoughts lead to action, and repeated actions result in the development of behavior patterns, and ingrained behavior patterns lead to a sense of identity."
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"The chit is semi-animate (half-alive) and the mind is completely physical."
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"Thoughts are the product of a machine we call the human mind. So manufacture some excellent thoughts."
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"Free your mind of that which you have no control. It is not only good to do so for your mental, but your overall health. Some people must learn from experience. You can convey knowledge to them and offer to show them the way. But, that doesn't mean your wisdom will be accepted or appreciated."
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"There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion-a passion for discerning what is subjectively real in every moment. It is a mode of cognition that is, above all, undistracted, accepting, and (ultimately) nonconceptual. Being mindful is not a matter of thinking more clearly about experience; it is the act of experiencing more clearly, including the arising of thoughts themselves. Mindfulness is a vivid awareness of whatever is appearing in one's mind or body-thoughts, sensations, moods-without grasping at the pleasant or recoiling from the unpleasant."
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"It's good to let your mind wonder, as long as you know where it's going."
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"When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!"
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"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind."
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"Thoughts are a product manufactured by the relentless effort of the machine we call a mind."
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"She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still."
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