When you find yourself in one of those mystical/devotional frames of mind or in am emergency and you feel you want to pray, then pray. Don’t ever be ashamed to pray or feel prevented by thinking yourself unworthy in any way. Fact is whatever terrib...
Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains are activated as if you were petting the actual cat. Our minds may k...
A synthesis—an abstraction, chunk, or gist idea—is a neural pattern. Good chunks form neural patterns that resonate, not only within the subject we’re working in, but with other subjects and areas of our lives. The abstraction helps you transfe...
It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic and insurmountable, the keeper of my life. She would grow old and still work in the garden. This image was fixed in my m...
In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was.
Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.
The heart wants what the heart wants.
Only in the silence of our mind are we One.
There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.
You can’t fathom the alien mind.
Positive mind-set is vital for surviving hard-times.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
Vampires, fairies, and werewolves. Oh my!
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
A fallow mind is a field of discontent.
When mind stuck, entertain your heart.
