Best Mind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 17

“Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.”

Mind Different States Levels Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Absence Engaged Different Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.”

Giving Mind Buddhism Periods Mindfulness Infinite Access Clarity Finite

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.”

Mind Important Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Down And

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.”

Mind Practice Our Lives Buddhism Mindfulness Developing Interfere Our Thoughts Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.”

Giving Mind States Life Is Simple Buddhism Mindfulness Tasks Manifestation State Of Mind Reverence Reverence For Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.”

Mind Stills Night Meditation Buddhism Periods Mindfulness Gains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?”

Knows Mind Kind Hate Buddhism Mindfulness Miserable Reasonable Unreasonable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Persons Buddhism Mindfulness Good Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.”

Mind Use Moving Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Flow Remove Finding Yourself Willpower Dwelling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.”

Thinking Mind States Energy Process Worry Buddhism Waste Mindfulness Silly State Of Mind Slow Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.”

Mind Stills Process Ability Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Reflection Midst Stillness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.”

Giving Mind Different States Facts Moving Joy Lost Levels Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Excellence State Of Mind Moving In

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.”

Feels Mind Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Areas Sorry Jealous Feel Sorry For You Slough

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.”

Ifs Mind Desire Purpose Buddhism Mindfulness Picks Purpose Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.”

Mind Ability Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Direct

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Buddhism Mindfulness Diamond Unlimited Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.”

Want Mind Littles Moments Desire Suffering Filled Mood Not Sure Continuity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."”

Mind Pain Suffering Perfect Painful Nightmare Agony Mind Free

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.”

Mind Long Pain Form Suffering Wish Consciousness Infinite Separation Immortal Finite

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.”

People Mind States Bigs Eye Suffering Swimming State Of Mind Pool Underwater Clouded Swimming Pool

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind forgetfulness.”

Mind Christian Remember Forget Blind Surrender Orthodox Orthodox Christian Forgetfulness

Author:Syncletica of Alexandria

“Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.”

Mind States Reason Ignorance Buddhism Complicated State Of Mind Premises

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.”

Thinking Mind Desire Enemy Ignorance Lovers Clutter

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.”

World Mind States Universe Ignorance Ego Appearance Mediums Perceive Cycles Manifest State Of Mind Rebirth Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.”

Mind Mean States Forget Ignorance Illusion Seconds State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.”

Mind Long Feelings Universe Ignorance Senses Manifest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.”

Years Mind Lasts Stars Forever Sky Ignorance Shining Billions Instant Clutter Stars In The Sky

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.”

Ifs Mind Matter Science Dies Easy Brain Forever Buddhism Cells Collections Reincarnation Grey Grey Matter

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.”

Mind Different States Whole Shows Awareness State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.”

Mind States Body Moving Process State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won't necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.”

Mind Mean States Might Remember Nice Higher Painful State Of Mind Reincarnation Previous Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.”

Mind States Suffering Aspect State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.”

Giving Mind States Past Next This Life State Of Mind Reincarnation Boost Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.”

Mind Different States Body Form Forever Buddhism Essence State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.”

Knows Men Mind Science Knowledge Know How Inspire Awe Old Man Reverence

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Firsts Able Science Purpose Half Knowledge Century Tasks Details Accomplished Devoted Doubtful Generalization Scientific Knowledge Juncture

Author:Hermann von Helmholtz

“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.”

Mind Humans Persons Science Names Behinds Wonder Saws Fields Thousand Horse Glasses Ships Pockets Human Mind Simplest Thrilling Microscopes Steeples

Author:David Fairchild

“A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.”

Knows Mind Wells May House Black Poor Brain Disease Mortals Poison Suspects Suspicion Plague Pestilence

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus”

Mind Body Customers Swings Ontology

Book:Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

“Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.”

Should Mind Mean Action Levels Compassion Activity Training Engaging

Author:Gelek Rimpoche

“So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.”

World Mind Hate Violence Awareness Karma Violent Karma Yoga Hate And Fear

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns.”

Mind States Patterns Karma State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.”

Mind States Moments Existence Who You Are Karma Chains Related Particles Timelessness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.”

Mind Different States Opportunity Views Higher Karma State Of Mind Different Views All State

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.”

Ifs Mind Kind States Karma Unhappy State Of Mind Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.”

Way Mind States Action Certain Causes Results Bears Ultimate Karma State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.”

Mind Mean States Feelings Happens Action Causes Views Karma State Of Mind Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.”

Way Mind States Higher Karma State Of Mind Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.”

Giving Mind Persons States Lifetime Karma Instant State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.”

Way Mind States Becoming Bounds Selfish Karma Nervous Upset Destructive Finding Yourself State Of Mind Anxious

Author:Frederick Lenz

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