Top 100 The Mind Is Quotes
#1. That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
Aristotle.
#2. When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.
Matthieu Ricard
#4. When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.
Frederick Lenz
#5. All that I would like to be is human, having a share
in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted
community where the mind is given its due
but the body is not distrusted
Louis MacNeice
#6. The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".
Ian Gardner
#7. The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
Timothy Gallwey
#8. The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.
J.K. Rowling
#9. A tangible object passes complete into my brain with the warmth of life upon it, and occupies the same place that it does in space; for, without egotism, the mind is as large as the universe.
Helen Keller
#10. Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.
Barry Long
#11. The mind is a universe, and it has the power to completely create any possibility.
Lionel Suggs
#12. The mind is biased; the heart is not. To see the beauty, see through the heart.
Debasish Mridha
#14. To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction ... to drive the fiend of fear from the mind ... is the task of the Freethinker.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#15. The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.
Robin S. Sharma
#16. By wit we search divine aspect above,
By wit we learn what secrets science yields,
By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd,
By wit we govern all our actions;
Wit is the loadstar of each human thought,
Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.
Robert Greene
#17. With the passage of time, the consequences of any event accumulated, and left more to undo. And the more there is to undo, the less likely the mind is to even try. This was perhaps one way time heals wounds, by making them feel less avoidable.
Michael Lewis
#19. We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.
Loretta Chase
#20. For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.
Plato
#22. If inanimate objects are left to stand in their world, and are not invited out to mingle with our sense of self, they will quietly console and delight us. But to bind possessions up closely with the mind is less than fair to both.
Kennedy Fraser
#23. The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is open.
Robert Anthony
#25. The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
Swami Vivekananda
#26. Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is
the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
Blaise Pascal
#28. The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.
George Santayana
#29. The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
Samuel Johnson
#31. Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Ralph Cudworth
#32. The mind is not limited to the thoughts and imagination, but your mind is part of the cosmos of the universe. Your mind is whole awareness field.
Roshan Sharma
#33. The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
Albert J. Nock
#34. The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand: if you want to know how the wind is blowing , you can look at the sand.
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
#35. That's what the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere.
Haruki Murakami
#36. You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#37. When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth.
Dada Bhagwan
#38. The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.
James Richardson
#39. But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#40. The mind is that which is roused and directed by itself. It makes of itself what it chooses. It makes what it chooses of its own experience.
Marcus Aurelius
#41. You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.
Grace Paley
#42. The mind is an old crow/Who knows only to gather dead twigs
John O'Donohue
#43. My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.
Francis Bacon
#44. The mind is neither good nor bad, it is the oneness with mind that creates suffering.
Vivian Amis
#46. The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.
Joe Rogan
#47. The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.
Hermann Hesse
#48. The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.
Daniel Mainwaring
#49. If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.
Swami Vivekananda
#50. The heart is always stronger than the mind, even if the mind is the wiser of the two.
Micalea Smeltzer
#51. When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.
Idries Shah
#52. The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#53. The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.
Maya Tiwari
#54. The mind is not something we own, it is something we share
Jack Veffer
#55. The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Budha
#56. The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#57. The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#58. Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#59. The mind is the most powerful force in the universe.
It is that which created every great empire in all of history.
It is that which will take us to the stars.
And it is that which will take us far, far beyond them."
-Me
Mitch Aigner
#60. You can't do anything as long as you are afraid of what might happen. Fear clouds opportunities, erases possibilities, and limits the ability to move beyond the place in which the mind is stuck. No matter how difficult we think the problem is, we must muster up the courage to face it.
Iyanla Vanzant
#61. If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can't get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible.
Geeta Iyengar
#62. Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still ... Be still and know that we are all God's children; then you will be in love with all.
Eknath Easwaran
#63. In order to build continuity and momentum in the meditation practice, you will need to keep reminding yourself to come back to the breath over and over again, no matter what the mind is up to from one moment to the next.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#64. A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.
James Ellis
#65. I understand that to be strong, your mind has to be strong and focused. It has to heal just like your body had to heal. The mind is a very peculiar thing. Your brain has a way of protecting itself and you from devastation
Maya Banks
#66. The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.
Julian Jaynes
#67. Man has always tried to rewrite his history but the mind is unforgiving, more so is time" - The Monk
Shashi
#68. The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
Terence McKenna
#69. Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart.
John Of Kronstadt
#70. The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.
Bill Johnson
#71. Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.
Swami Vivekananda
#72. The life of the mind is inappropriate in America now. Don't ever say anything unusual--unless the organization has approved it beforehand. Follow the rules. Be afraid. Be careful. Be a very good boy or girl.
Ryan Blacketter
#73. My wife likes to say that the mind is a palace with room for many guests. Perhaps the butler takes care to install the delegates of Science in a different wing from the emissaries of Faith, lest they take up arguing in the passages.
Laini Taylor
#74. The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
Margaret Fuller
#75. The mind is compared to a wild horse,and the practice of ethics is compared to the reins by which this wild horse is tamed.
Dalai Lama XIV
#76. Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that's what the mind is for.
Margaret Atwood
#77. The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.
John Owen
#78. Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.
Simone Weil
#79. The mind is a wild thing. An adventurer.
A. Spencer
#80. You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested;
If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.
Cormega
#81. The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.
Sathya Sai Baba
#82. The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior to more mundane desires shows how skilled the mind is at justifying any desire it is attached to.
Joel Kramer
#83. The mind is the greatest of all human forces. Control the mind and you control the body.
Griffin Jay
#84. Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.
Byron Katie
#85. The mind is a mine. So often we revisit its winding, unsound caverns when we ought to stay out.
Claire Vaye Watkins
#86. The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.
Augustus William Hare
#87. True meditation is a state of profound and deep peace that comes when the mind is calm and silent, yet totally alert. True meditation takes you to a higher state of awareness and enables you to fulfill who you were meant to be.
Stewart Osbourne
#88. When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem." The
Elizabeth Gilbert
#89. Create the bounty of madness in your heart (of His love)
Not by intelligence alone will you reach to the truth."
(For if the mind is not enlightened by revelation,
It is better to remain an ignorant one.)
Jalaluddin Rumi
#90. I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.
Joseph Addison
#91. There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.
Antonio Damasio
#92. The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.
Frederick Lenz
#95. When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.
Phil Jackson
#98. If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light.
Watchman Nee
#99. It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
Saint Ignatius
#100. Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
Jack Kornfield
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