T Quotes
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“The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.”
“The mind swings like a pendulum, forever shifting between clarity and chaos.”
“The mind tends to dart from one thing to another, like a monkey swinging from branch to branch without stopping to rest.”
Source: The Mindfulness Survival Kit: Five Essential Practices
“The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.”
“The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.”
“The mind that dares to create something new must break away from the crowd.”
“The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.”
“The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.”
“The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.”
“The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.”
“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”
“The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.”
“The mind that is deceived believes that this world is real. It believes that it is a real person and that there are real events that are happening to it. I really lost my job; I really do not have enough money to pay the rent. That is how it feels. It really does not see it as a dream. When we go to bed at night and dream, do we react to the dreams? There is running and sometimes fear and lots of emotions that seem to go on in those dreams. Why? Because the mind thinks it is in the dream. If you really let go of judgment you will start to see more and more that you are the dreamer of the dream, you are the cause of the dream. If I am in the dream it does not seem like I am the cause of the dream and I am not in control of it, but if I step back and realize that I am the dreamer of the dream, then I can accept another purpose for it. OK, I am going to change the purpose – out with the ego and in with the Holy Spirit! The Course calls that the happy dream. There is nothing on the screen that has changed, there are still the same things going on, what the world describes as wars and so on but my purpose for the world has changed.”
Source: Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles
“The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!”
“The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.”
“The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed”
“The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”
“The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.”
Source: The spectator
“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size”
“The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation.”
“The mind that stops learning starts shrinking; keep stretching it with something new every day.”
“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power-upon one plane; and the desire to wield that power in the world external to our minds awakes. It does not follow that we shall use that power well on any plane. We may put a deadly green upon a man's face and produce a horror; we may make the rare and terrible blue moon to shine; or we may make woods to spring with silver leaves and rams to wear fleeces of gold, and put hot fire into the belly of the cold worm.”
Source: On Fairy-Stories
“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.”
“The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.”
“The mind that's conscious of its rectitude,
Laughs at the lies of rumor.”
“The mind, the body and the soul enfolds in divinity of spirit.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.”
“The mind, too, should be soothed . . . whenever it sinks, soothing is, better than reasoning. The slackened nerves are not to be braced by words. When a mind is worried by care, or oppressed by sorrow, it cannot in a moment grow tranquil, and attend to the voice of reason.”
Source: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
“The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.”
“The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy.”
“The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by various names. Gold made into various ornaments, we call by various names. But all the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments gold. The one is real, the many are mere names and forms.”
“The mind, unfettered by the constraints of the ego, dances with the cosmos in ecstatic union”
Source: Sun Circle: a magickal solar grimoire
“The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.”
“The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.”
“The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.”
“The mind wanders in the fog of environmental illness.”
“The mind wanders when it’s never totally satisfied.”
Source: Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too
“The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.”
“The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and it's one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through - to accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, "I am this." Every time you claim, "I am this", you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.”
“The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.”
“The mind wants to understand things—it’s a miracle. We make logic jumps every day—images we see are interpreted. We make natural assumptions to form an understanding”
Source: The Adjustment
“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“The mind was rarely a rational thing when it came to the dark or the unknown.”
Source: Tap, Tap, Tap 'Til Halloween Comes
“The mind was so thin, barely a spiderweb, with all its fine
thoughts, aspirations, and beliefs in its own importance. Watch how
easily it unravels, evaporates under the first lick of pain.”
Source: White Oleander
“The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.”
Source: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
“The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.”