State Of Mind Quotes - Page 11

• The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

  4 Copy quote

• Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

  Ansel Adams

  Dream, Heart, Past

  Ansel Adams (1981). “Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio”

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Silly, Buddhism, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Practice

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Swimming, People

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Ego, Mind

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Mean, Mind

  4 Copy quote

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Different, Awareness

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Selfish, Upset

  4 Copy quote

• happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

  Flora Thompson

  Happiness, Mind, Events

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.52, David R. Godine Publisher

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Mad, Mind, Lasts

  8 Copy quote

• It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.123, Random House

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.

  Mae West

  Fashion, People, Giving

  12 Copy quote

• Sometimes things just happen. Sometimes surfing this bank from Snapper to Kirra, sometimes you don't even think what you're doing but you do it anyway ... You get to the end of a wave and go, what did I do? Sometimes you go into a totally different state of mind.

  Mick Fanning

  Sports, Thinking, Surfing

  18 Copy quote

• At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment. Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Karma, Powerful

  6 Copy quote

• We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Character, Mind

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Aug 12, 2013

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Karma, Buddhist

  7 Copy quote

• Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Stress, Hands

  53 Copy quote

• Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Letting Go, Meditation, Mind

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.

  Douchan Gersi

  Motivational, Inspiration, Destiny

  Douchan Gersi (1987). “Explorer”, Tarcher

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Philosophy, Mind, Contentment

  5 Copy quote

• When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.

  Carlo Carra

  Thinking, People, Musical

  "The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells" by Carlo Carra (1913), as translated in: Mary Ann Caws "Manifesto: A Century of Isms," p. 203, 2001.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fact is that when you are in a clean, clear state of mind you will be free to pay full attention to what you are doing and you will therefore naturally do it well. Problems come when you are not living in a natural state of mind. Then, no matter what you are doing your mind will be on something else.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Mind, Attention, Pay

  Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source