State Of Mind Quotes - Page 6

• I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Mind, Sometimes

  "'We Have to Tackle This -- With Peaceful Means'". Interview with Thilo Thielke, www.spiegel.de. November 22, 2010.

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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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• Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Perfection, Ego

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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 have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

  John Steinbeck

  Thinking, Texas, Mind

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.125, Penguin

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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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• Energy is a state of mind. Tell yourself you're tired and you will be. Tell yourself you feel great and you will

  Chalene Johnson

  Tired, Mind, Energy

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• For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Philosophy, People

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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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• One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Mind, Meat

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• I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Mind, Negative, States

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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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• Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Mind

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• Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Heart, Mind, Fundamentals

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• Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Events, Determined

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.33, Penguin

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• The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to step outside the conceptual framework they have and transmitting blocks of awareness to an individual psychically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Teaching, Mind

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• So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Sorry, Waiting

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.87, New World Library

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• Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Struggle, Thinking, Class

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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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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• 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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• There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Mind

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• Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Agony, Mind

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• Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

  Jane Smiley

  Ignorance, Self, Mind

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.222, Anchor

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