Quotes of: Prepared-mind Keyword

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

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

But do not give up your practice; continue it, knowing your weakness.

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

Our effort in our practice should be directed from achievement to non-achievement.

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

But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.

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

That's what I love about people. They have dreams and grand ambitions, and they start building towards them, even though they know they won't live to see them finished. That's how the pyramids were built. And the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages. ...

Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely ...

Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we comp...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the ti...

Henry V

It is the iron." Grimalkin picked his way over a puddle, then leaped atop a fallen tree, shaking out his paws."This close to the false king's realm, his influence is stronger that ever. It will be worse once you are actually within its borders." Puck...

The Iron Queen

The (nation) state's concern had been the development of citizens - social subjects whose identity was shaped by the goals of the state - and the preparation of a labour force serving the needs of a national economy and administration. That state was...

Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication: Exploring Contemporary Methods of Communication

Mercy is to care, and care very deeply about one another. It is to care to the point where we are prepared to be involved with the sufferings and adversities of others. It implies that I am prepared to put myself in the other person's place. It means...

Salt For Society

If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative ca...

When War is Unjust: Being Honest in Just-War Thinking

Flow with the go! If you want to experience the magnificence of the Universe in your life accept where you are, own it, take responsibility for it. Then release the old hurt, guilt, wrongs, mistakes as well as your future worries and stress. Finally ...

Inshan Meahjohn

if you do not share the universities' values, it could be a big mistake to send your children to college before they are intellectually and morally prepared for the indoctrination-rather-than-education they will receive there. Therefore, prepare them...

Dennis Prager

Edwin Epps: "And that servant which knew his Lord's will... which knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself... prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes..." D'ye hear that? "Stripes." That nigger t...

12 Years a Slave

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

George Santayana

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. Wha...

Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

In other restless positions you have no power to accept your difficulties, but in the zazen posture which you have acquired by long, hard practice, your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are, whether they are agreeable or disagr...

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

Mind Worker Cop Jake: So, you're saying your husband was blown away by an elephant. Was he with anyone? Mind Worker Cop Jake: Yes! And there she is! [Joy runs through the Cloud Woman, causing her to disappear] Mind Worker Cop Jake: Hey, come back her...

Inside Out