Quotes of: Mindfulness Keyword

The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.

The Gunslinger

Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

She was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her like life was passing her by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled.

The Awakening

Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Walking Toward Enlightenment

When we hold onto worry, regret, and anger, peace of mind, strength of body, and freedom of spirit eludes us.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

Relaxation is… a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm.

Baby Steps to Meditation

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

Belgarath the Sorcerer

Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while remaining essentially the same.

Christian Antisemitism

I'm an old guy. I don't hustle and I don't bustle. So sometimes you're behind, but that's okay. Your peace of mind is more important. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age. They could have enjoyed lif...

Kumar Pallana

I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.

Frida Giannini

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

1984

Age doesn't matter: an open mind does.

The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

The Handmaid's Tale

Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires are goal inscriptions, thinking is computation, perceptions are inscriptions triggered by sensors, trying is executing operations triggered by a goal.

How the Mind Works

Keep clearly in mind the following truth: the things we keep foremost in our mind get our attention, and whatever gets our attention, gets done!

It's Your Life, Live BIG