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When a fine old carpet is eaten by mice, the colors and patterns of what's left behind do not change,' wrote my neighbor and friend, the poet Jane Hirschfield, after she visited an old friend suffering from Alzheimer's disease in a nursing home. And so it was with my father. His mind did not melt evenly into undistinguishable lumps, like a dissolving sand castle. It was ravaged selectively, like Tintern Abbey, the Cistercian monastery in northern Wales suppressed in 1531 by King Henry VIII in his split with the Church of Rome. Tintern was turned over to a nobleman, its stained-glass windows smashed, its roof tiles taken up and relaid in village houses. Holy artifacts were sold to passing tourists. Religious statues turned up in nearby gardens. At least one interior wall was dismantled to build a pigsty.I've seen photographs of the remains that inspired Wordsworth: a Gothic skeleton, soaring and roofless, in a green hilly landscape. Grass grows in the transept. The vanished roof lets in light. The delicate stone tracery of its slim, arched quatrefoil windows opens onto green pastures where black-and-white cows graze. Its shape is beautiful, formal, and mysterious. After he developed dementia, my father was no longer useful to anybody. But in the shelter of his broken walls, my mother learned to balance her checkbook, and my heart melted and opened. Never would I wish upon my father the misery of his final years. But he was sacred in his ruin, and I took from it the shards that still sustain me.
— Katy Butler, Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
When I watch my mind and stay with my body, out of that comes some course of action.
— Charlotte Joko Beck
The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
No one else can choose your attitude for you. Your perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control.
— Irene Dunlap
Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe
— Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth
My mind soars on paper airplanes.-Bridget H
— Rachel Fershleiser, I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous  Obscure
A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.
— Patrick Ness
The trouble with having a fertile mind is that the weeds grow as prolific as the pastures.
— P.K. Shaw
The cause of depression and stress are negative thoughts,Be positive, never infect your mind with negative thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
I am not the body, I am not the mindI am the spirit, eternal, joyful and kind.
— Debasish Mridha
A mind without freedom, a life without liberty, is like a heart without love, a journey without a destination.
— Debasish Mridha
Peace can't be seen with eyes, only the mind can see it and the heart can feel it. So open the window of your mind to let it come in.
— Debasish Mridha
Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
A happy mind is also a beautiful universal mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is a state of mind, not the condition we find.
— Debasish Mridha
Look at me
—  look at me.Can you see
To be happy and beloved have a tender heart, blissful thoughts, and a non-judgmental mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Let happiness bloomIn the freshness of your mind,In the gentle wind of your thoughts.On the ground of kindness and compassion.
— Debasish Mridha
The will to love, the desire to help, and an open mind with gratitude can unlock the door to eternal happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is a perception of the mind that comes from forgiveness and love.
— Debasish Mridha
I am happy because my mind is always filled with happy thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness resides in your mind. Never infect your mind with negative thoughts or happiness will fly away.
— Debasish Mridha
The only way to find happiness is to create it inside your mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Serenity of mind brings joy and happiness in life.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing gets transformed in your life until your mind is transformed.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
There is no hell; there is no heaven. In your mind, they are your own creation.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is an awareness, perception, feeling, and imagination. Happiness is a state of mind not a condition.
— Debasish Mridha
The only way to be happy is to prepare your mind to be happy.
— Debasish Mridha
If it's possible in the mind, then it's possible anywhere.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
The truth remains itself, even the human minds cannot see it.
— Marieta Maglas
How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, into touch, taste and fragrance. He thought he'd linger just a bit longer, let the bath take total hold, ease and alleviate, before he put on clothes and entered the complex boxes where people do their living.Nothing fits the body so well as water.
— Don DeLillo
Mind is obsessed with fleeting illusions, while Spirit is constant and free.
— Reza Mohamed
The light within us can always identify our mind’s darkness
— Munia Khan
I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thought. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.
— Isaac Marion
The moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving.
— Debasish Mridha
Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity--precisely the time whenyou need strength. What best equips you to cope with tthe heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor more intellect. What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness.No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering. The first step in building up presence of mind is to see the need for ii -- to want it badly enough to be willing to work for it.
— Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper.
— Debasish Mridha
A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers' minds.
— Debasish Mridha
Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen.
— Debasish Mridha
A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.
— Debasish Mridha
A good writer is a magician
—  she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.
Write about the beauty of rainbows and the glint of reflected light that can enlighten readers' minds.
— Debasish Mridha
Good writing is a mirror of the mind where readers can see themselves again and again.
— Debasish Mridha
When you are writing you're creating beauty for mind.
— Debasish Mridha
You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts
—  it will be beautiful.
Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.
— Jay Woodman
A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader's mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity--precisely the time whenyou need strength. What best equips you to cope with tthe heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor moreintellect. What makes your mind stronger, and moreable to control your emotions, is internal disciplineand toughness.No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering.
— Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity,precisely the time whenyou need strength. What best equips you to cope with tthe heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor more intellect. What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness.No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering. The first step in building up presence of mind is to see the need for it, to want it badly enough to be willing to work for it.
— Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
You can Transform into a Super-Soul! If you align your physical and mental (logical/emotional) self with your core self (or soul being), then you will know your personal path, and find ways to follow it to fulfillment. You can learn how to best nurture your body, plus train your mind as an empowering tool to enhance your overall balance, strength, and unique skills, so that you achieve your goals, as well as optimise your well-being.
— Jay Woodman
In my isolation, I dreamt of power. My daydreams and fantasies were all about how I could win, how I could be number one, how I could have my cake and eat it too. When those dreams were fulfilled, I felt nothing. The love-sized hole within me grew larger and larger as I died by my own hand, by my own mind. During my transformation, I found what I needed to fill the hole. I found peace, joy, and connection. To power, I waved goodbye. I thought that being a loving, spiritual being meant sacrificing that triumph-hungry drive within. For much too long, I ignored these urges, believing them to be the opposite of love while I cycled in and out of love awareness. The day that my love mindset became a permanent state of mind was the day I realized that love is not the opposite of power. Love is power. Love is the strongest power there is.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset
Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I think about the pepper plant, the corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and more plants. And I've noticed that while those seeds are living within the fruit or vegetable they can not grow. It is only when those seeds have died, that they can be planted and grow. And, I can relate this same process to the human body. In order to grow and thrive in the spirit, you must die to the flesh. Meaning, You have to rid your mind and body of toxic negative worldly things in order to grow and develop more spiritually.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
To spend your time trying to make your body flawless is to waste your time. Even if it appears to match some externalized ideals of perfection for a moment, your physical self will wrinkle and age. Work on your mind. Work on your legacy.
— Vironika Tugaleva
We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. Lose your mind, find your soul.
— Vironika Tugaleva
While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.
— Amit Kalantri
Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.The fact is, what you feed your kids is important, and that includes what they put in their heads as well as what they put in their bellies.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Three types of people are there, those who smile, those who think and smile and those who smile and think. Beware of those in the last two category, because you don't know their thoughts!!!
— G.S.Sreekiran
As a consequence of natural analgesic actions or as a result of the administration of drugs that interfere with body signaling (painkillers, anesthetics), the brain receives a distorted view of what the body state really is at the moment. We know that in situations of fear in which the brain chooses the running option rather than freezing, the brain stem disengages the part of the pain-transmission circuitry, a bit like pulling the plug. The periqueductal gray, which controls these responses, can also command the secretion of natural opioids and achieve precisely what taking an analgesic would achieve -- elimination of pain signals.In the strict sense, we are dealing here with a hallucination of the body because what the brain registers in its maps and the conscious mind feels do not correspond to the reality that might be perceived. Whenever we ingest molecules the have the power to modify the transmission or mapping of body signals, we play on this mechanism. Alcohol does it; so do analgesics and anesthetics, as well as countless drugs of abuse. It is patently clear that, other than out of curiousity, humans are drawn to such molecules because of their desire to generate feelings of well-being, feelings in which pain signals are obliterated and pleasure signals induced.
— António R. Damásio
A human mind was built for contact with similar minds. It should,—in fact,—it must think about what is going on around it; for, if it is shut up in a thick, dark, bony box of a skull, it will always stay in that condition known as "status quo"; and grow up, antagonistic to all surroundings.
— Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
Hunger does not come from body; it comes from mind. Once a person starts to feel hungry all the time, nothing satisfies him whatsoever. This hunger covers up all the aspects of life ... The only thing wrong in following your hunger blindly is that people never know when to stop and when to feel satisfied.
— Gracia Hunter
Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.
— Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
When enforcing our boundaries, first and foremost, we are caring for ourselves, but we are also helping others to have a clear understanding of what we consider acceptable behavior. We are reflecting back to them what is not acceptable and, therefore, providing them an opportunity to consider that information and make necessary changes.
— Peggi Speers, The Inspired Caregiver - Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love
Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
— Arthur C. Clarke, Tales from Planet Earth
The world of light and starry grace;within your mind I live to trace.Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,lightening my being with dream’s story.I embrace the tree carrying your nameYour unspoken wish : the heart of fame.
— Munia Khan
Take bold decisions. Don’t let doubts fumble decisions in your mind and make you confused over them. Pursue what you are convinced to do
—  else you set yourself up where you do not belong.
As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, 'Some animals are more equal than others'—that he embedded in our language and in our minds. In Orwell's own mind there was an inextricable connection between language and truth, a conviction that by using plain and unambiguous words one could forbid oneself the comfort of certain falsehoods and delusions. Every time you hear a piece of psychobabble or propaganda—'people's princess,' say, or 'collateral damage,' or 'peace initiative'—it is good to have a well-thumbed collection of his essays nearby. His main enemy in discourse was euphemism, just as his main enemy in practice was the abuse of power, and (more important) the slavish willingness of people to submit to it.
— Christopher Hitchens
Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart's memory but love itself?
— Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain
In short, we can only learn from our "betters".
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war—peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm, tells you to turn over, think about home.
— Clint Van Winkle, Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
When peace has thoroughly permeated our brain, mind, and body, we can create it as our reality. I firmly believe that every person is a peacemaker, once thy have developed their self-awareness and creativity. Peace must not be left to government leaders or gurus. It must spring from the brains, hands, and minds of the people.
— Ilchi Lee, Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living
My mind has a time machine
—  it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future.
My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household.
— Tehmina Durrani, My Feudal Lord
Reading gives liberty to your mind.
— Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love
The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Entrepreneur, if your going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.
— Onyi Anyado
So in a man’s mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don’t trust things you can manage, you manage them. And so, God as information is managed and no relationship of trust is fostered.
— Geoffrey Wood
Rekindle the glowing spirit for success in your heart. Refresh your mind with possibility thoughts and never give way for your passion to drink from the cup of tiredness. Be renewed in your thoughts every single day.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
A soul of terror’d mind, shall never find thy rest. For cruelty comes with a sacrifice – one in which beholds as a hate of oneself.
— Tania Elizabeth, The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Moon Clearing
At the same time, they find their mind-god has played a trick on them. For mind is a part of the very system it has closed around it, and being inside, there is no reason to think any statement made by some part concerning the whole has any validity. Mind was caused by the material universe, if mind is right. But only the greater can accurately define the lesser, never the other way round, so if mind is right, mind would never know.
— Geoffrey Wood
Our mind is who we are; it’s where we feel and think and believe. It’s where we have love and hate and faith and passion.’ I was getting a little embarrassed by your earnestness but you continued, ‘How can someone hope to treat another person’s mind unless they are also a theologian and a philosopher and a poet?
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
You are more that the identity your mind creates.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
What a magnificient look a clear sky has! And what a magnificient look a clear mind has!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.
— Lesley Howarth, MapHead: No.2
We do not stop dreaming and producing because we grow old
—  we grow old because we stop thinking and imaging. The spirit and mind grow stronger with time.
For if you do not wish to be ‘just a number’ then do not measure yourself accordingly. Bank statements and scales are instruments employed by society that confine you to a limited summation of yourself – born is the human void.
— Nicole Bonomi
The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.
— Geoffrey Wood
What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less is a scary hollowness. Your mind fills with dark thoughts; you become convinced that your friends secretly hate you, you're worthless, and then there's no hope. I never got so low as to consider ending it all, but I understand how that can happen to some people. Depression simply hurts too much.
— Tyler Hamilton
An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.
— Agnostic Zetetic
Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The mind, at times, takes masochistic delight in suffering.
— Saurbh Katyal, Seduced by Murder
Aren't we all homeless without a home inside our mind?
— Munia Khan
Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Awake my soul.Awake my spirit.Awake my desires.Awake my light.Awake my mind.Awake my hope.Awake my faith.Awake my love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't go on sharing your secret's with everyone, you have the best safe for your secrets - Your Mind.
— Alamvusha
The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?
— Onyi Anyado
Discover more about yourself, dream wild dreams because what others see in you right is just a mild chapter of you; the wild chapter will unfold sooner! Dare to dream and shape the dream every day!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.
— Dawn Gluskin
What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mind you, the effectiveness of one hunter’s gun does not determine the number of bush meats the other hunter will kill. You got to be yourself. Be you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.
— Raheel Farooq
HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching
—  HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.
Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot.
— Adriano Bulla
Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.
— Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades
Happiness has to exist in the mind before it can exist in life
— Lorin Morgan-Richards
What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward into a mobile in her mind. They floated into dark-three, all-just-fine and then into all-fine, dark-just-three.
— Blue Balliett, The Calder Game
Wisemen's minds and hearts live together under the same roof of wisdom
— Munia Khan
It wouldn't be mind control, if you will know you've been under mind control.
— VicDo
To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory.
— Roy  Richardson
The Mind The mind is a hotel with a thousand rooms. When I tilt my head a certain way, I think about certain things. When I tilt my head another way, I think about other things. If I sleep on the right side of my face, for example, I’d dream of a pale rose, the future, or a continental diner in Passaic, New Jersey. When I sleep on the left side of my face, I’d dream that a hand is squeezing my heart, that I’m in prison, or that I’m watching hockey at an airport bar, about to miss a flight.
— Linh Dinh
Bear it in mind that when you have no brand, “no brand” is your brand and that’s a negative brand!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
MIND & GRINDSelf-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
When we say we understand something, but we do not experience it, we do not understand it. Understanding and experiencing are the same thing. For example, we may say: I understand the importance of forgiveness BUT I can't do it. Firstly, replace "I can't do it" with:I am choosing to remain in the state of being of ignorance (misinformation), because I believe it to be the best option I can choose from.Secondly, replace "I understand the importance of forgiveness" with:"I do not understand the importance of forgiveness". Being honest with oneself is the first step to self-understanding.
— Raphael Zernoff
When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Those were the three words seldom asked to her.Yet, she knew they hold a healing power in them; For they bring a million thoughts to the mind and more to the soul; For the answer is far deeper than what is simply said on the face.She understood, so she asked him what was seldom asked to her,"How are you?
— Sanhita Baruah
Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will die.But the fascinating thing is that the illusion of certainty is exactly the opposite of safety because it hardens and narrows the vision to make everything fit its own scope. Then when new information arrives which would be its ally, the mind pushes it away in favor of the leaky life raft to which it clings, sinking all the while beneath the waves of change.In fact, the only antidote for this is to embrace 'I don’t know' so deeply that a powerful, dynamic safety emerges. This is like learning to surf so well that a tsunami wave shows up as a challenge to test our mastery.
— Jacob Nordby
respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start to express your emotions to others, this is essential to a healthy wellbeing.
— Avis J. Williams, The Psychic Mind: A Practical Guide to Psychic Development & Spiritual Growth
Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Remember you are the perfect reflector of your mind.
— Richmond Akhigbe
you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true
— Avis J. Williams, The Psychic Mind: A Practical Guide to Psychic Development & Spiritual Growth
Freedom can be a state of mind, a path built independently, and with freedom comes responsibility.
— Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum
I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Learning about freedom, for . . . the very essence of human existence, knowledge, as the mind is an element that enables us to shift the winds of luck, reshape the forces of fate or destiny, and, ultimately, empower us to become free authors of our own lives, for the true art of human expression is the ability to express our dreams, thoughts, and emotions as we feel them or as they come to mind, as we search for universal equality, justice, peace, love, truth, and reality.
— Martin Guevara Urbina, Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America
You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return.
— Henri Cole, Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007
What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out, do they not?
— Enza Vita
Its amazing to contemplate what human mind is capable of, incredible functionality, specialty of describing something beautifully without even experiencing called the work of imagination, carries us to a world we have never been before.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
The only priceless institution that can make you succeed is your mind
— Goitsemang Sandra Mvula
You may be tall; you may be short. You may be a black; you may be a white. One more thing to keep behind your mind is that you "your purpose is unique". Anyone who is thinks he is clever enough will mess up when he/she wears your shoes; it won't fit!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Nothing else in this world can renew our minds like the Bible.
— Elizabeth George, Life Management for Busy Women: Living Out God's Plan with Passion & Purpose
Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness
— Avis J. Williams
we may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Don't just create a change for yourself, be a centre of change to others.
— Richmond Akhigbe
When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.
— J. G. Hamann
Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Change your thought, change your mind.Change your belief, change your action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Develop an affirmation today, and start getting instant confirmation in all works of like.
— Richmond Akhigbe
Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I am the master of my mind and fate.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes the heart weakens the individual that makes him/her do things he/she wouldn't normally do. Following ones heart varies by situations, but should never be followed when making decisions on critical situations. The heart is full of love and compassion thus welling to forgive, show mercy, and weakens the mind of the individual. So, be passionate of your performance and sympathize and empathize with sensitive situations, but let your mind guide your heart.
— John Yang aka Private83
Opportunity does not knock
—  It just enters the opened heart and mind.
There's an apt expression: 'If you don't live in your body, where are you going to live?' But many of us don't. We tend to get locked into our heads or our imaginations . . . recognizing the importance of the body is primary. It's who we are, it's where we live, it houses and embodies your mind and imagination.
— Bill Connington, Physical Expression on Stage and Screen: Using the Alexander Technique to Create Unforgettable Performances
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— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
The greatest weapon anyone can use against us is our own mind. By preying upon the doubts and uncertainities that already lurk there. Are we true to ourselves or do we live to the expectations of others? And if we are open and honest, can we ever truly be loved? Can we find the courage to release our deepest secrets? Or in the end are we all unknowable even to ourselves.
— Emily Thorne
No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.
— Shannon L. Alder
Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that,and why I don’t want to look like this and be like thatbut still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.
— Plato, The Republic
Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and pebbles and rocks and iceballs and worlds and stars, all the unthinking galaxies and superclusters, wheeling through the oblivious time-haunted megaparsecs of the cosmic supervoid. In all that immensity, she had somehow contrived to BE a human being, a microscopically tiny, cosmically insignificant bundle of information-processing systems, wired to a mind more structurally complex than the Milky Way itself, maybe even more complex than the rest of the *whole damned universe*!
— Alastair Reynolds, Blue Remembered Earth
I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else.
— Daniel Pinchbeck, Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension of thinking, logic and reason, the heart - the dimension of joy, trust, intuition, relationships, beauty, creativity and a sense of unity in love and the being, the dimension of meditation, silence, emptiness and oneness with life.The first level of the head is the dimension of ideas, intellect, hypothesis, theories, logic, analysis, rationality and dualistic thinking.The first level is the level of the mind, which means a continuous oscillation like a pendulum between the mind's memories of the past and the ideas, dreams and expectations of the future. The second level of the heart is the dimension of joy, acceptance, trust, understanding, trust, friendship, intuition, empathy, creativity, compassion, humor, playfulness and a sense of unity in love. The third level of being is the dimension of presence, awareness, meditation, silence, emptiness and wholeness. The third level is our connection with our inner life source.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
Your life is always a perfect reflection of your state of heart and mind, and of your truest identity.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Enjoyable social interaction, community and laughter has a healing effect on the mind and body.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Think less and feel more and see what happens.
— Raphael Zernoff, Unlearn What You Know
Every human being has the right to be rich in mind, body and spirit. They need to live a life that is comforting, productive and continuous. They do not need to compete to reach this level of success but to take it in their strides and to relish the opportunity to pluck from The Universe its opulence.
— Anthony Pan
The heart cannot embrace what the mind does not accept.
— Anonymous Christian pastor
Let your hair loose, and enjoy the breeze.Go out into the woods and sit under trees,Do whatever it takes and set your mind at ease.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Reality Check: A Collection of Poems
My brain tends to take the scenic route. Things come to the forefront of my mind sooner or later, it just takes time.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
If you are pure in intention and in alignment with beauty and love, in body and mind, the highest levels of your spiritual self will subsume your weaknesses.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.
— Scott O'Reilly, Socrates in Cyberspace: The Search for the Soul in the 21st Century
I have checked our teleportation technology," Tridax said. "There was no sign of sabotage. You are a liar.""Well, no one ever said Makuta were observant," said Vezon, "How could you be so sure? Suppose I sabotaged it myself using my incredible powers of the mind.""You have no powers," said the Makuta, picking up a wickedly sharp blade. "You have no mind. You are about to have no head.
— Greg Farshtey
The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine.
— Blaise Pascal, The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Gentle walking is completely transformative for the body and mind.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your mind is working on your future based on a suggestion. The question is on whose suggestion it's working on: Yours or others?
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
You can never clear a thought from someone's mind, which is incepted by a external cause. thy you know the truth, let it pass patience and self realization is the key to clearance.
— Pushkar Saraf
as a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret of all happiness.
— Anonymous
The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind.
— Dr. Seuss
Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and worth the cherishing. If we despise any, we journey to despise ourselves. See all as beautiful, even if they choose to see themselves through you, as being less than so. We have the power to see for each, and be the reflection of what they may yet see.
— Tom Althouse
Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
— Terence McKenna, History Ends in Green: Gaia, Psychedelics and the Archaic Revival
Natural elegance inspires the mind.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, From Poet's Hand
The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind.
— J.D. Stroube, Caged in Spirit
Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness within my mind to be my silent protector.
— J.D. Stroube, Caged in Spirit
No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
— Idries Shah
Over centuries, organised perpetrator groups have observed and studied the way in which extreme childhood traumas, such as accidents, bereavement, war, natural disasters, repeated hospitalisations and surgeries, and (most commonly) child abuse (sexual, physical, and emotional) cause a child's mind to be split into compartments. Occult groups originally utilised this phenomenon to create alternative identities and what they believed to be “possession” by various spirits. In the twentieth century, probably beginning with the Nazis, other organised groups developed ways to harm children and deliberately structure their victims' minds in such a way that they would not remember what happened, or that if they began to remember they would disbelieve their own memories. Consequently, the memories of what has happened to a survivor are hidden within his or her inside parts.
— Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse
Happiness is a beautiful feeling. It is a beautiful mind, and a peaceful mind
— Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind
A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and the speaking mind selected one, forming it grossly into the inadequate symbols of words, inadequate because common to disparate situations - admitted to be inadequate for vast regions of expression, since for them there were the parallel languages of music and painting. Words were not called for in many or indeed most forms of thought: Mozart certainly thought in terms of music. He himself at this moment was thinking in terms of scent.
— Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain
Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of seeing the world, but we become over-attached to the people or things we desire.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind
I just want to pour my soul out on someone and not have to worry about the mess I’ve made.
— Andrea Slicker
Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.
— Munia Khan
Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said "Shake the soil off your sandals"! What are you waiting for? Shake it off!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Creativity means bringing simplicity to the existing.
— Amit Kalantri
Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.
— Amit Kalantri
Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.
— Eckhart Tolle
Art speaks to the soul, not the mind.
— Aidan Crowe
The immature mind hops from one thing to another
—  the mature mind seeks to follow through.
The key to happy living is that Mind should be at rest and body must be exercised and active, but in the disillusioned pursuit of happiness during current times we reverse the mantra and ignorantly fly away from it.
— Hiyamedia
In calmness of mind is greatness.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
I asked myself one day, 'Would it be humane of me to completely destroy my mind and soul for the music?' I knew immediately that the answer was no, so I knew I had to.
— Matt Borneman
Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.
— James C. Emlund
A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition , nobody should indulge in it.
— Osunsakin Adewale, The Hour of Temptation
Motivation is the greatest gift to stimulate the feable minded.
— Osunsakin Adewale, The Hour of Temptation
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, and then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this. But while grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. Once a man has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bear his truth in mind.
— Rati Tsiteladze
You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.
— Donovan
The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches
— Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary
— Kate Mullane Robertson
Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.
— Jake Wood, Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War
The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.
— Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart
I finally stop feeding my mind with toxic thoughts and started nurturing my heart and soul with love instead.
— Mareez Reyes
Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.
— Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.
— Lolly Daskal
A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
— Idries Shah, The Sufis
Part of God's work in his people is synchronizing the heart and the mind thus providing freedom from the deceit of emotion-based beliefs. Emotions are changing while truth is absolute. They don't believe simply because it sounds good, or deep, beautiful, happy, fun, cool, simple, or intelligent to them; but because it's true.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
my mind struggled top condense all that had led to me being here. My vocal cords fought to express the memories that leaked out
—  I felt the weight of it all pressing down on me.