6,568 Quotes About Mind

If you do not look like an ordinary person, it means that you are suffering from a mental disorder. Which one of? Do not worry! Psychologists will find a name for your mental illness. Their minds are too creative for this purpose.

To see the organism in nature, the nervous system in the organism, the brain in the nervous system, the cortex in the brain is the answer to the problems which haunt philosophy. And when thus seen they will be seen to be in, not as marbles are in a box but as events are in history, in a moving, growing never finished process.

The crime series, books and other types of works have in one in mind... and that's learning.

Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. ‘We are too ego-centered,’ Suzuki tells Cage.’ The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.

The taste of love is determined by the sufferings of this sentimental experience. Love with less or no suffering can not be so nourishing for the mind.

My eyes in tearsHeart never sighsMy mind never fearsI conquer the lies

Incomparable wound weeps through a parableBarrenness I bear into the unbearableI read the pale sadness from the unreadableMy mind starts breeding from the bare unbreedable

The lid, however, wouldn't shut. The mind held back the whole sky.

Your mind is your light. If your mind is cloudy, how can you illuminate your life?