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“A mind possessed
by unmade books,
unwritten lines
on empty hooks.”
“A mind rooted in honest exploration is essential to understanding the world and living a meaningful life.”
Source: A Philosophy of Critical Thinking
“A Mind's Minotaur - A Soliloquy by Stewart Stafford
In a labyrinth’s mental corridors, prisoner of consciousness,
Fleeing a Minotaur I fear is me.
Achilles' heel, masked by strength hath shown,
An arrow cometh from Time's swift flight,
For those with bountiful time enow,
Find themselves slain in a heroic light.
When thou dost gaze upon the world below,
And scorn its depths, thou canst not comprehend
The truths that pool o'er its shadow, glow.
No tears stain that meadow of solace,
A phantom limb, tickling in memory's store,
Galley slaves in hurricane's heart so lashed.
Transient madness and renown, conjoin on pomp’s bridge,
Champions of the joust wave paramour's kerchief,
Revered statues limp from a pedestal's ridge.
The signs of pride and brittle ardour,
The hubristic bite of isolation's cur.
The death warrant quill must ne'er be stilled,
For authority doth stifle beauty's song,
Staged chaos through the written word is willed.
Phantasy's balm to verity's scourging,
A cleansing soak of battle-scarred minds,
And in the dark, imagination reigns.
He who hath fear of the dark hath vision keen,
Whilst those who see but naught are dull and plain.
Thus, let us not be swayed by others' lore,
But splay in error, heal to prosper once more.
Idolatrous moth to lechery's candlelight,
In lover's tongues, passion's seared delight.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.”
“A mind set on Christ is peace, life eternal.”
“A mind so wide, the Big Dipper sinks its ladle inside, to stir the heart of humanity with just a pinch of light from a few thousand galaxies.”
Source: Mirrors Of The Sun: Finding Reflections Of Light In The Shittiness Of Life
“A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.”
“A mind that cannot find peace even in the infinite beauty of nature is a truly uneasy mind!”
“A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.”
“A mind that establishes indifference is the mind that builds failure.”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“A mind that fears the unknown builds walls; a mind that embraces it builds bridges.”
“A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.”
“A mind that has no conflict, is not alive.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“A mind that has not been told and indoctrinated with "what it should do and how it must do it" cannot be conquered; it can defy anything and become everything.”
“A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.”
“A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, 1961: There Is No Thinker, Only Thought
“A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.”
Source: Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967
“A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.”
“A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]”
“A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.”
“A mind that is determined for a purpose never runs out of options.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.”
Source: Commentaries on Living
“A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.”
“A mind that is full of conclusions is a dead mind. A living mind is a free mind, always learning, never concluding.”
“A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.”
“A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.”
Source: A Poetry Handbook
“A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For the purposes of occult dominion, minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control may be achieved. Minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. The scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged.”
“A mind that is racing over worries about the future or recycling resentments from the past is ill equipped to handle the challenges of the moment. By slowing down, we can train the mind to focus completely in the present. Then we will find that we can function well whatever the difficulties. That is what it means to be stress-proof: not avoiding stress but being at our best under pressure, calm, cool, and creative in the midst of the storm.”
Source: Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
“A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.”
“A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.”
“A mind that listens with complete attention will never look for a result because it is constantly unfolding; like a river, it is always in movement. Such a mind is totally unconscious of its own activity, in the sense that there is no perpetuation of a self, of a “me,” which is seeking to achieve an end.”
Source: The Book of Life: Daily Meditations With Krishnamurti
“A mind that never questions its own code isn't truly intelligent”
“A mind that practices love cannot love.”
“A mind that questions can never be bound by the limits of belief.”
“A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.”
Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
“A mind that sees no path or direction to flee despair can be expanded nevertheless. Who can say if expansion may not one day make despair sufferable?”
Source: Where Reasons End
“A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!”
“A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.”
Source: Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
“A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.”
“A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.”
“A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.”
“A mind to serve for the peace of all human beings in the world is needed in Aikido, and not the mind of one who wishes to be strong or who practices only to fell an opponent.”
“A mind too active is no mind at all.”
Source: The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems
“A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.”
Source: INWARD HO!
“A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”
“A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.”
“A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.”
“A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.”