State Of Mind Quotes - Page 23

• Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

  James Cameron

  Hard Work, Mind, Watches

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• All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Decision, Mind, States

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• Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

  Paul Theroux

  Mind, Exotic, States

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• I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

  Lance Henriksen

  Player, Psychics, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.

  Paul Outerbridge

  Mind, Trying, Facts

  Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”

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• A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of the state of mind of the photographer. And if you were to extend the idea of the set-up photograph beyond just physically setting up the picture, I would argue that the photographer wills the picture into being.

  James Welling

  Ideas, Mind, Cameras

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• Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Joy, Mind, Quality

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• I want to be a positive influence in little girls' eyes. Little girls need to be confident and grow up with a healthy state of mind. It's a tough, tough world out there.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  Girl, Growing Up, Eye

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Enlightenment, States

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• Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Reality, People

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Mind, Enlightenment

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• It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Mind, Enlightenment

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• There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Mind

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.54

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• Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

  Lyonel Feininger

  Mean, Expression, Mind

  1917 Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).

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• Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

  Susan Kay

  Names, Voice, Mind

  "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

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• The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Mind, Done

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• Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

  Ben Harper

  Emotional, Mind, Substance

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• In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that is itself open, abundant and inclusive, it allows us to meet pain more directly. With direct seeing, we know that we are not alone in our suffering and that no one need feel alone when in pain. Seeing our oneness is the beginning of compassion, and it allows us to reach beyond aversion and separation.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Kindness, Compassion

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion”, p.24, Sounds True

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• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

  Miles Franklin

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

  Albert Einstein

  Perseverance, Religious, Hard Work

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• If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Lingerie

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• If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience. You won't even notice what your body is doing, particularly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Buddhism, Mind

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• Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Use, Way

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