State Of Mind Quotes - Page 13

• Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

  Prentice Mulford

  Mind, Fixing, States

  Prentice Mulford (2013). “Thoughts are Things & God In You”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

  Paul Theroux

  Attitude, Mind, States

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

  John Steinbeck

  Texas, Mind, Obsession

  "Travels With Charley: In Search of America". Book by John Steinbeck, Part 4, 1962.

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• If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

  Dalai Lama

  Peaceful, Mind, Causes

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mind, Suffering, Causes

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.6, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

  Ruskin Bond

  Mind, Way, States

  Ruskin Bond (2017). “The Lamp Is Lit”, p.149, Penguin UK

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• Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  People, Mind, Enemy

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.127, Tharpa Publications US

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• If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mind, Causes

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• An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Perception, Mind

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• An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of mind. They will suffer. They will know joy. But ultimately, they are free of all that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Joy, Mind

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• Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

  Frida Kahlo

  Real, Order, Profound

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• Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Order, Meditation, Mind

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• Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mind

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• The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Study

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• We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Ideas, Mind

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• According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Views, Mind

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• Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mirrors, Perception, Mind

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• I greet every new day with the words, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' That's the state of mind that directs me, fulfills me, and sends me out into the world with a gift to share. It's a blessing that I have learned over a lifetime - to experience the presence of Spirit in most of my waking moments. It's a feeling of contentment and satisfaction, of peace and love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, New Day, Feelings

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• Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Essence, Mind

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• Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Spring, Doubt, Mind

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• Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Mind, Littles

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Grief, Agony, Mind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.342

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• Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

  Luanne Rice

  Song, Beach, Prayer

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• Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Mind, World

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• Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you a much more accurate picture of reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Reality, Mind

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