Quotes on Mind

If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.

Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.

Fill your mind with truth; fill your heart with love; fill your life with service.

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other.

Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds.

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.