6,568 Quotes About Mind
- Author Idries Shah
-
Quote
You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Idries Shah
-
Quote
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Idries Shah
-
Quote
If I knew what two and two were – I would say Four!
- Tags
- Share
- Author Idries Shah
-
Quote
The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Idries Shah
-
Quote
Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)
- Tags
- Share
- Author Idries Shah
-
Quote
They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Adrienne Rich
-
Quote
And yet, protest it if we will,Some corner of the mind retainsThe medieval man, who stillKeeps watch upon those starry skeinsAnd drives us out of doors at nightTo gaze at anagrams of light.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Amit Abraham
-
Quote
I don’t have a mind to mindI only have a heartthat loves and cares
- Tags
- Share
- Author Antonio R. Damasio
-
Quote
The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.
- Tags
- Share