Great quotes on mind

Great quotes on mind invite you to look deeper into your experience and point towards the origins and reality within and behind the mind. Take a few moments to look around the site for more great quotes on mind and beyond it.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

Epicurus

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrender of the mind's vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes freer and more open to the light of Truth.

David Hawkins

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations.

Rene Descartes

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Blaise Pascal

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, and your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything; your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you.

Osho

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

Ramana Maharshi

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Charles Horton Cooley

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