A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn’t a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama queen of the mind. If you have ever been friends with a drama queen you know how taxing it can be. To have one in your head is enough to make you...
Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.
As your training integrates Mind, Body and Spirit, enjoy the process. Your journey to the marathon finish will last a few hours. Your journey to the start will influence a lifetime.
I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.
African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just...
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
There's an ad for every vice. That's advice.
Guys are always confused by how soft and sentimental they are.
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
To master life, control the mind. To control the mind, guard your speech.
age is a state of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.
A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.
