“The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my body, feeling the shame, all of it, that I really was able to connect to in that book. So it sort of blew my mind. I was also listening to Tori Amos at the same time, so I was like, "Wait, what's happening?!" It was all a part of that, probably when I was, like, 13.” MindFirstsBookFeelingsBodyAbleWaitingRevolutionListeningHappeningsFirst TimeShameDescribingSexual Revolution Author:June Diane Raphael
“I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.” IfsMenMindChildrenEnergyDevelopmentHappeningsAreasFaultsAverageAverage ManGrandioseRural Areas Author:Chinua Achebe
“When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.” ThinkingWayMindWellsMatterIndividualHappeningsNo Matter WhatOne WayAffected Author:Willie Nelson
“I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.” ThinkingWorldYearsMindArtMadeMatterLastsCoursesTechnologyDevelopmentHappeningsArt IsToolsImprovementPhenomenonDiscernmentInterfacesMind And Matter Author:Vik Muniz
“The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.” MenWayYearsMindFirstsDoneStoriesHappeningsOriginalsCinemaGreat MenCopyingGreat YearPastiche Author:V. S. Naipaul
“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.” MindMeanMadeFormStrongSidesMistakeTeamFootballHappeningsResilienceMechanismBounceFootball TeamInspirational TeamStrong MindStrong Minded Author:Gary Neville
“When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.” WayTryingMindLooksDifferentRememberThreeHoursMillionsStageHappeningsMilesIntenseRight WayCircusBagels Author:Steven Wright
“I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.” WorldMindSpeakInterestingHappenings Author:John Wilmot
“Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.” MenMindBelieveLooksMayRealEyeFearAcceptingWatchesFateDangerNormalApproachMessagesHappeningsConcernWaveRefuseHis EyesDoomSpectacularSpinningApprehensionFrightParalyzedResignedDescendingTornadoesAvalanchesTidal Waves Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.” MindHumansLyingHuman BeingsAnimalHappeningsDenialLied Author:Cesar Millan
“And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was happening outside? When I saw an external object, my awareness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, lining it with a thin spiritual border that prevented me from ever directly touching its substance; it would volatize in some way before I could make contact with it, just as an incandescent body brought near a wet object never touches its moisture because it is always preceded by a zone of evaporation.” WayMindBodySpiritualOrderFeltWatchesSawsSeeingAwarenessObjectsHappeningsDepthContactSubstanceBordersZoneTouchingWetMoistureEvaporation Book:Swann's Way Source: Swann's Way
“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.” IfsKnowsMindShowsCareFilmScienceMemoriesDarkBecomingHorrorOffersHappeningsMiseryFleshMeatVegetarianVeganFactoriesVegetarianismVeganismOur MemoriesHorror FilmSustenanceDark PlacesFactory FarmingEating Animals Author:Jonathan Safran Foer