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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.
There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.
Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.
The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.
Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.
Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.
The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire.
It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.
I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.
We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana.
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.
This thing in society that you have to be a stick will always be in my mind, but that's just something I have to deal with.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
Use the power of your conscious & subconscious mind to create a vibrational match for the abundance you desire and deserve.
Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.
So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.
That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.
I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.