Mind Quotes
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“Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.”
― The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
― The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
“Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.”
― The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
― The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”
― Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries
― Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries
“If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in authentic life challenges. ("Not on the shortlist")”
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“When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. (“Not without the past”)”
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“Recognizing a problem may help us to understand and solve a problem. Rather than lying down and selling our sound judgment short, let us appeal to the opulent granary of our memory and explore the green pastures lingering in our mind. ("Prêt-à-penser")”
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“If we remain humble and grounded in nature's wisdom, our mind will guide us safely through the confines of unawareness and the blindness of ignorance. ("Why step out of nature ?")”
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“For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“Ever and again, our mind may become befuddled when we have to find out what is heads or tails. Ever and again, bewilderment may strike our brain when we have to interpret the contrasts between the dark and the bright sides of things when we have got to read complex cases and assess the divergences between the iridescent outward appearances and the grisly undercurrents of particular characters. (‘"Côté cour…Côté jardin" )”
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“Let us not can and store preconceived ideas in our minds. A freewheeling imagination can only function or reach its real height if it is liberated from canning ”old thinking” and adopting imposed “packaged mental trips.” ("Ready-to-wear thinking")”
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“When love slides into the edge of unconcern or vanishes in the cornfield of forgetfulness, our mind must loosen the knots that tie us to the barren fields of a lost past. ("The Internet rescue")”
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“The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose;
Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.
Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart;
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.
The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease;”
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Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.
Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart;
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.
The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease;”
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“When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.”
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“Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.”
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“If we care to listen to the secrets of our body and the riddles of our heart, we can balance the surfing flow between the wants of our mind and the needs of the flesh. ("Disruption" )”
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“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by telling her she was selfish. She was always planning out her own development, desiring her own perfection, observing her own progress. Her nature had for her own imagination a certain garden-like quality, a suggestion of perfume and murmuring bows, of shady bowers and of lengthening vistas, which made her feel that introspection was, after all, an exercise in the open air, and that a visit to the recesses of one’s mind was harmless when one returned from it with a lapful of roses.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
“Meditation is cleaning up clutter in the backyard of our mind, triggering a shift in our thinking, and reshaping a drained logic in our mental network, giving voice to fresh concepts and new emotions. (The rabbit hole of Meditation)”
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“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.”
― The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
― The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.”
― Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
― Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
“. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.”
― The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
― The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
“The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.”
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“A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced”
― Brighton Rock
― Brighton Rock
“Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt.
Prayer makes it weaker.”
― Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Prayer makes it weaker.”
― Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit...
Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.”
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Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.”
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