- “As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, ‘If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “…I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.” ― Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
- “Mind can’t go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline.” ― Shunya
- “There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “Meditation is cure for the mind.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Imagination is my time machine.” ― Steven Magee
- “Man is neither totally an individual being, nor totally a social animal. He needs aloneness just as much as he needs togetherness. He needs cleanings just as much as he adds information, makes new connections, new people. We call that mind’s cleanliness, meditation.” ― Saroj Aryal
- “Life is like photography. At one point we realize that candid photography offers more “Perfect Moments” than stressfully trying to control everything to create such moments.” ― Shunya
- “Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call ‘soul’ or ‘spirit,’ is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the ‘soul’ or the ‘spirit’ ceases likewise.I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life.” ― Nikola Tesla, Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
- “… the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.” ― John Piper, The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God
- “An argument is a creation of discussion happening between an intelligent and a fool person. In this argument, an intelligent person is a bigger fool.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantras
- “Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.” ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
- “Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
- “I will use my mind, not just my regular brain lobes.” ― Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow
- “When all thoughtsAre exhaustedI slip into the woodsAnd gatherA pile of shepherd’s purse.Like the little streamMaking its wayThrough the mossy crevicesI, too, quietlyTurn clear and transparent.” ― Ryokan
- “If you had been born in a civilization in which the rising sun was called ‘my sun,’ you would consider it your sun.” ― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence
- “Ninety-nine percent of the time, our myths, stories, and expectations for what grief should feel like come from our minds. Where grief really lives—and where grief needs to be expressed from—is our hearts.” ― Shelby Forsythia, Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
- “Language is an attempt to define life in linear words and symbols, but in reality, everything everywhere is happening all together at once, and to explain the totality of this with language is impossible. Thus, to awaken to the truth of reality, the truth of who we are, we must go beyond our language and intellectual way of understanding life.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
- “The less you know, the more you will be knownThe less you want, the more you will haveThe less you are, the more you will be” ― Vivian Amis, I Am: The Key to Manifesting
- “He kept coming back to the silence. It was so big. And surprising. Even when a donkey brayed somewhere in the same valley – loud, long and loaded with loneliness – it did not change the silence, it enhanced it. Like jewels around a beautiful neck. Ed smiled. You can be at the poshest hotel in the country, on the planet even, but a farmer can still put a lonely donkey in the field next door. In the same way he couldn’t control what arose in his mind – or appears in the world around him – but he could give it space.” ― Matt Padwick, Transpose – a self-styled revolution
- “Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.” ― Louis L’Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
- “Einstein understood all material frames of reference to be relative to each other and to have no absolute material frame of reference to condition them, i.e. he denied the existence of the ether. It never once occurred to him that all material frames of reference are in fact relative to an absolute mental frame of reference, namely that of light, the source of the absolute, the frequency source of the spacetime, material world.” ― Thomas Stark, The Sheldrake Shift: A Critical Evaluation of Morphic Resonance
- “The greatest mistake the self-indulgent-ego-mind forgets, that there is no permanence throughout the expanse of the universe. Only experiences and everything is just memory like a wake in the water, dissolving away as the boat acts forward” ― Kayo K.
- “We do not need an ashram or church, some secret initiation, a guru’s blessing, or an intentional community. As helpful or supportive as those may be at times, ultimately, what we need is the willingness to look at ourselves honestly, to feel what emotions lie within us, to acknowledge our thoughts and actions, to choose to be aware of what we ignore or suppress, and to let go of what limits and distracts us so we can open ourselves fully to the truth of life in this moment.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
- “The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.” ― M.D. Birmingham
- “She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.” ― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Pastor’s Wife
- “What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn’t reveal themselves to you?” ― Will Lavender, Obedience
- “Have a loving heart and a beautiful mind.” ― Debasish Mridha M.D.
- “When you make a choice, you change the future.” ― Deepak Chopra
- “The degree of your mindset will confine you – just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru