Quotes of: Peace-of-mind Keyword

Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the environment in the present, in the context of its past experiences and expectancies of the future. ...

The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and medicine. It reflects a basic ignorance of the relati...

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have been provided with beautiful tools for understanding the impact of trauma. We become adept at...

Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

Invisible prose only!" rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces, rich with speculation, insight, and subjectivity, the craft and offers a unique caliber of truth. Is there any other art...

An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

We will be entering the beautiful world of a Zen master's no-mind. Sosan is the third Zen Patriarch. Nothing much is known about him- this is as it should be, because history records only violence. History does not record silence- it cannot record it...

Hsin Hsin Ming, the Book of Nothing: Discourses on the Faith Mind of Sosan

At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in the environment in which we evolved). We are happier when we are healthy, well-fed, comfortable, safe, prosperous, ...

How the Mind Works

Your fear is a blessing. It is giving you an opportunity to disidentify from your mind and learn to trust the unknown. The mind can never trust or surrender. Trust always happens through intelligence and consciousness. The mind always asks for guaran...

In Search of the Miraculous: Healing into Consciousness

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because ...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

It is the ego's purpose that makes everything seem dis-united and like separate events. The constant purpose is the thread that ties all events together. The script is really a continuous thing, rather than discreet events. I did this next and this h...

Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

Opportunity to suspend disbelief is often why we watch movies. The stories and images touch us and shift perspectives in ways we may not allow in our daily lives. As readily as you check your “this isn’t real” attitude at the ticket counter –...

The Whole Person Guide to Your First Marathon: A Mind Body Spirit Companion

The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past — so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what a mind can’t control, it tends to discount. Brush past ... over. I...

One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Grace

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Ruth Benedict

He who has two women loses his soul; he who has two houses loses his mind.

French

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

Chase

Peace that transcends all understanding is contentment in uncertainty." el

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

Celestial Kings and Queens

If you don't make peace with your own mortality, you'll never know what it's like to truly be alive.

Concrete Underground

...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.

Days and Nights

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

Every Day

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace