State Of Mind Quotes - Page 15

• Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Mind, Age

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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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• 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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• In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Different, Way

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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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• Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Prayer, Play, Games

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• The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Lying, Mind, Suffering

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• A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

  Minor White

  Mind, Photographer, Film

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• Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching rains in the winters, fog off-shore in the summers, salmon surging up the streams - all these together make up a particular state of mind, a place-specific intelligence shared by all the humans that dwell therein, but also by the coyotes yapping in those valleys, by the bobcats and the ferns and the spiders, by all beings who live and make their way in that zone. Each place its own psyche. Each sky its own blue.

  David Abram

  Summer, Rain, Winter

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• COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mind, Comfort, Neighbor

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, War, Heart

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• One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

  Paul Gauguin

  Insightful, Mind, Three

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Moving, Eating Well, Long

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• I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love - that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.

  Rosa Parks

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  Rosa Parks, James Haskins (1948). “My Story”, Scholastic

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• Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

  James Dickey

  Feelings, Mind, Peculiar

  James Dickey (1984). “Self-interviews”, p.139, LSU Press

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• Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Mind, Lasts, Resolution

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• Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram
  remain inaccessible to this state of mind.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, America, Mind

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state.
  Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little.
  Feeling is frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Feelings, Mind, Pathways

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.187, Random House

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• Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Waiting, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.86, New World Library

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• One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines.

  Kingsley Martin

  Animal, Thinking, Numbers

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• What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Thinking, Practice

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Aug 05, 2011

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• By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Creativity, Mean

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• I hate the fact you always feel like you have to be going somewhere, like the end destination is to be finished, or to be happy. But the truth is a lot of us are completely lost, and we don’t know, and that is also a state of mind, to not know who you are and where you’re going.

  Lykke Li

  Hate, Mind, Facts

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