Quotes of: Conscious-mind Keyword

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Dalai Lama

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

How the Mind Works

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.

The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

Onyi Anyado

When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real

Stanley Victor Paskavich

You can only be liberated in your mind. Master your mind with positive thoughts. Change your mind, change your actions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.

Andrew Taylor Still

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Bodhidharma

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

G.K. Chesterton

Neo: Okey dokey... free my mind. Right, no problem, free my mind, free my mind, no problem, right...

The Matrix

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

Patanjali

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

Anthony Liccione

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

Anuj Somany

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say n...

The Abolition of Man

A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of strength and efficiency. When the body is in crises, the mind m...

The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone

Actually we do not have any particular name for our practice; when we practice zazen we just practice it, and whether we find joy in our practice or not, we just do it.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is. [...] Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

The mind is the emperor of the body.

Chinese

Mind your p's and q's.

English

To relax the mind is to lose it.

Latin

It is the mind that wins or loses.

Nepalese