Quotes about Mind

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?

For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change.

I am an appearance The world is an appearance The bread I eat is an appearance All wish't forth from Mind Essence Due to Ignorance-- I don't have to exist I don't exist, I do exist-- Who cares? For the purposes of this world Do nothing Or do everything anyhow.