Quotes and Sayings About Mind
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
-- Agnes Repplier -
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
-- Agnes Repplier -
A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?
-- Ahdaf SoueifSource : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground”, p.278, A&C Black
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The most beautiful smile is the one for someone who isn’t there, who just popped on your mind.
-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi -
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
-- Ahmed H. Zewail -
The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.
-- Ahmed Kathrada -
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.
-- Aidan Chambers -
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Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
-- Aimee Bender -
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When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
-- Ajahn Chah -
We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way. If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
-- Ajahn Chah -
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.
-- Ajahn Chah -
If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
-- Ajahn Chah -
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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn't hers to command. Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn't obey us, that means it's only a deception. Don't fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don't fall for it. Its all a deception.
-- Ajahn Chah -
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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind. Then we don't have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.
-- Ajahn SumedhoSource : "23 Warning Signs of a Toxic Friend" by Ann Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2016.
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America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.
-- Ajay Naidu -
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance
-- Akhenaton