- “Are you all right, Sir?” asked Hezekiah.”Just fighting over old battles in my mind,” said John. “It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.”Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. “I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I’m afraid I’d be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me.” ― Orson Scott Card, Heartfire
- Speech is the index of the mind. Seneca
- “So-called intellectuals have ego-power; Fools have willpower.” ― Saurabh Sharma
- “The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” ― Black Elk
- “The pair’s beauty reflected in the singing sea itself, entrancing the moon and the constellations. If only the mind was as beautiful as the body.” ― Grace Curley, The Light that Binds Us
- “Human’s biggest friend and enemy is his/her mind.” ― Santosh Kumar (San)
- “Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.” ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
- “When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
- “The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God. Basically, the human and the God are two sides of the same coin. Or to be more specific, the human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
- “When milkman knocks at the door, you don’t have to open it. Let him leave the milk at the door. Similarly, you don’t have to react to everything people say or do in your life.” ― Shunya
- “God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature as God, as Consciousness, life becomes a joy without end.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “<...> I’venever believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.” ― Maggie Shayne, Killing Me Softly
- “You lock your house and go out for a week. When you return, everything seems strange inside the house. The house grows in your absence! Everything in the universe is sitting on Time and continuously growing, with or without you.You are working hard on a problem, trying to conceive a solution. Don’t make it an ego issue. Let it alone for some time. Let it grow without you. Let it conceive without you. When you return to it, you will be pleasantly surprised to find the solution curled beside it like a baby. 30” ― Shunya
- “Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.” ― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
- “As your soul becomes more and more aware, magical coincidences start happening: Things that happen in your life seem related to thoughts that occur in your mind. Ultimately you realize that you are the creator of your own reality.” ― Shunya
- When your mind is telling you that you’re done, that you’re exhausted, that you cannot possibly go any further, you’re only actually 40% done. David Goggins
- “Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.” ― Doug Dillon
- “All feelings are pure at origin. The commentary of thoughts and wordspollutes them.” ― Shunya
- “It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.” ― Elton Trueblood
- “Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.” ― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
- “Once the mind commits to a story, the facts become secondary. Truth bows to bias.” ― Nicolas Lietzau, Dreams of the Dying
- “If you have not yet prepared your mind to climb the ladder to greatness when you travel abroad, you had better stay where you are, for the moment you cross the outer edge of your country into another, you will be blown about by an irreversible breeze of change. Therefore, no matter how long you spend abroad, you will never return home to who you were before, it is either the people laugh with you or they laugh at you.” ― Godwin Elijah
- “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” ― George Orwell, 1984
- “Indicting red squiggly lines in our thoughts may besiege our mind at some point. Before they take possession of the framework and the outlines of our lives, we must endeavor, from the outset, to track down the upsetting causes in the blurred trenches of our inner selves. (“Unfulfilled meeting”)” ― Erik Pevernagie
- We have more idleness in the mind than in the body. François de La Rochefoucauld
- “We see what our mind shows us, nothing less, nothing more. If there is a camel out there but our mind decides to show it as cow, we will see cow, not camel.We don’t know what is actually out there. It maybe God Himself. But our limited mind shows us limited things.” ― Shunya
- “A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.” ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
- “Meditation has also been proven scientifically to untangle and rewire the neurological pathways in the brain that make up the conditioned personality. Buddhist monks, for example, have had their brains scanned by scientists as they sat still in deep altered states of consciousness invoked by transcendental meditation and the scientists were amazed at what they beheld. The frontal lobes of the monks lit up as bright as the sun! They were in states of peace and happiness the scientists had never seen before. Meditation invokes that which is known in neuroscience as neuroplasticity; which is the loosening of the old nerve cells or hardwiring in the brain, to make space for the new to emerge. Meditation, in this sense, is a fire that burns away the old or conditioned self, in the Bhagavad Gita, this is known as the Yajna;“All karma or effects of actions are completely burned away from the liberated being who, free from attachment, with his physical mind enveloped in wisdom (the higher self), performs the true spiritual fire rite.” ― Craig Krishna, The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind
- “Still the mind in meditation and you will witness the heart’s signals and its inspired thoughts. For 20 to 30 minutes every day, capture inspired moments of heartfulness.” ― Daaji
- “When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.” ― Ryan Lilly