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“Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.”

Ifs Mind Happiness Hours Five Meditation Minutes Buddhism Walking Focused Five Minutes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”

Ifs Mind States Happiness Grows Focus Buddhism Unhappy State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.”

People Needs Mind Happiness Love You Buddhism Drink Drug Clarity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let us say that you wanted a romantic partner who is in a higher sate of mind, a nicer person. The reason you will meet that person is because you are in a state of mind that will cause that meeting to occur.”

Mind Persons States Reason Wanted Causes Buddhism Higher Meetings Sexuality Partners State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.”

Mind Two Body Together Health Buddhism Discipline Gains Your Body Over You Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.”

Mind Body Differences Perfect Health Buddhism Strive Combination Athletics Perfect Combination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.”

Ifs Mind Two Together Practice Meditation Health Buddhism Easier Unbelievable Athletic Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.”

Mind Kind Matter Body Sports Views Health Buddhism Shapes No Matter What Point Of View Your Body Athletics Disharmony

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.”

People Mind Spirit Term Powerful Health Buddhism Work Out Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.”

Ifs Mind Sports Levels Meditation Health Buddhism Higher Mindfulness Tools Devices Workout Session Athletics Higher Level

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”

Mind Doe School Literature Education

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)

“If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.”

Ifs Needs Mind Sports Serious Health Buddhism Discipline Accomplished Athletics Power Of The Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.”

Ifs Mind Self Play Sports Player Health Buddhism Participation Sense Of Self Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.”

Mind States Winning Ability Attention Health Buddhism Direct Dependent Concentration State Of Mind Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.”

Mind Sides Health Buddhism Rounds Senses Perceive Nothingness Athletics Disk Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.”

Mind Self Path Health Buddhism Letting Go Ego Interfere Sense Of Self Athletics Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.”

Mind Health Buddhism Nothingness Athletics Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.”

Mind Art Fighting Ability Walks Health Buddhism Martial Arts Athletics Unafraid

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

Way Mind Art Self Body Artist Fighting Winning Emotion Situation Health Buddhism Art Is Martial Arts Combat Mastery Self Mastery Athletics Mind Body Martial Artist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.”

Mind Use Body Moving Order Practice Awareness Movement Health Buddhism Mind And Body Mundane Athletics Body Movement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.”

Men Giving Mind Literature One Thing Charm Bores Uneasy Irritated Unrest

Author:Anatole France

“In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.”

Years Mind Powerful Known Clear Health Buddhism Ill Most Powerful Athletics Ill Health Clear Minds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.”

Ifs Mind Wells Age Beautiful Health Buddhism Aspect Eternity Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.”

Men Should Mind Home Left He Man Flower Should Have Woods Thick Easter Sweetheart Nightfall

Book:Poems of Edward Thomas

Source: Poems of Edward Thomas

“Bringing a spiritual dimension into all that we do is essential for ending the struggle and dancing with life. Our body and our minds can take us only so far, our spirit can lead us all the way Home.”

Way Life Inspirational Mind Home Body Spiritual Spirit Struggle Positive Essentials Dancing Dimensions Way Home Spiritual Dimensions

Author:Susan Jeffers

“The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.”

Life Inspirational Mind Doe Body Life Is Destiny Share Positive Limits Essentials Discovery Mind And Body Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem Discovery In Life

Author:Rupert Spira

“Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.”

Life Inspirational Mind Wisdom Wise Positive Eternal Clever Slits

Author:Rupert Spira

“Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.”

Writing Mind Ideas Air Pages Flow Hot Exposing Hot Air

Author:Tom Robbins

“Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.”

Ifs Writing Mind Self Used Turns Evil Chance Stupid Beats Criticize Stamps Indulge Inadequate Indulge In Epithet

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.”

Men Mind Action Effects Stimulus Juvenile

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

“As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.”

Mind Photography Music Love I Love Music

Author:Julian Lennon

“In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.”

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.”

Mind Shows Appearance Guests Occasional

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.”

Feels Mind Stories Ready Busting Busting Out

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.”

Mind I Can Country Kids Support Achieve Example

Author:Maria Sharapova

“In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.”

Mind Facts Technology Streets Modern Arguing Advertising Brands Site Location Associates Equity One Word

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.”

Mind Made Body Language Process Quality Extraordinary Privilege Mind And Body Payment Patents

Book:Political Economy

Source: Political Economy

“You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Mind Care Stuff Audience

Author:Paullina Simons

“The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.”

Mind Kids Individual

Author:Ralph Steadman

“As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.”

Thinking Mind Body Space Path Wonderful Subjects Walking Gender I Realized Pursue March Urban Demonstration Parades Urban Life

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.”

Knows Feels Years Mind Grief Vision Worst Dad Periods Losing Seven My Dad Eight Worst Things Old You Losing Him

Author:Richie Sambora

“Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.”

Mind Heart Careers Sun My Heart Sweating

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.”

Mind Wanted Jobs Careers Brother Dad My Dad Hated Hats Straws Overcoat Ritz Straw Hats Marx Brothers

Author:Steve Sabol

“I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Made Waiting Decision Thought Provoking Wrong Things Decisions Made

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.”

Should Writing Mind Lying Disease Philosophical Hypothesis

Book:The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.

Source: The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.

“When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.”

Mind Sometimes Audience Open Mind Vacant

Author:Todd Solondz

“Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.”

Mind Notes Comedian Hitting

Author:Yakov Smirnoff

“Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.”

Mind Humans Wells Kind Art Character Helping Body Form Term Human Beings Acting Grace Communicate Your Body Former Dancer Ballet Conjunctions

Author:Zoe Saldana

“I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.”

Ifs Thinking Way Life Giving Mind Heart Balance Overcoming Live Life Behave Right Thing Right Way Good Place

Author:Alexis Arguello

“Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.”

People Mind Important Nations Sports Fronts Deserve

Author:Daley Thompson