State Of Mind Quotes - Page 26

• You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Buddhism, Mind

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• I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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• You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one state of mind to another.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Mind

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• Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.

  Barbara

  Courage, Pain, Broken

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• Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Fire, Boston, Order

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Mind

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

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• Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Mind

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• There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, People

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• At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Changing, Past, People

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.102, Vintage

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• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.. Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary."

  Tony Robbins

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Joy

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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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• 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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• 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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• Aggression is not a breed thing. Its a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Ideas, Mind

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• In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

  Pico Iyer

  Easter, Past, Islands

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• In trusting, we let ourselves go. We know that all kinds of unexpected events may come our way. Our tension eases, our mind and our hearts open spontaneously to be possibilities. It is an ever new state of mind, in the present moment, because we have detached from all we know. But it is also a feeling as old as can be, because, before all betrayals and all disappointments, there was a time in which trusting another was the very substance of our life.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Heart

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• There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Together

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• Tantric Zen is a state of mind

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, States

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• Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Practice

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• Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, States

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• Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Real, Lying, Mind

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.17, Tharpa Publications US

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• I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Home, People, Mind

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mind, Church, Accessories

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.

  John Dos Passos

  Fighting, Thoughtful, Thinking

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.

  Edna O'Brien

  Country, Philosophy, Odds

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