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Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent.
Only no-mind is original and radical.
Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.
The mind gives you a sort of stupor.
Burdened by the memories of the past,
burdened by the projections of the future,
you go on living - at the minimum.
You dont live at the maximum.
Your flame remains very dim.
Once you start dropping thoughts,
the dust that you have collected in the past,
the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.
Your whole life becomes a flame,
and a flame without any smoke.
That is what awareness is.
- Osho
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
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Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I claim that human mind or human society
is not divided into watertight compartments
called social, political and religious.
All act and react upon one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The mind constantly chatters.
That chatter winds up being the force
that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do,
what we react to, and how we feel.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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