This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the...

The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind.

To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.

In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Our game is to recognize a big idea when it comes along, when one doesn’t come along very often. Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

A mind can bleed a heart to death.

A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.

Earn with your mind, not your time.

The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart’s memory but love itself?

Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing – It just indicates your state of mind ~ Ramana Pemmaraju

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

My kids miss me when I’m away, but I don’t mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq… it’s such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from...

If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.

When you silence your mind, faith walks in.

I wouldn’t mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10...

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most...

Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?

A book without words is a mind without thought.

BEFRIENDING THE BODY Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people...

I didn’t come in here to planning to be the fifth outfielder. That wasn’t what I had in mind. … I feel like every spring training I’ve had a shot to be a starting guy,...

Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That’s one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in...

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Mind and body are in many ways opposite from each other, and mind and body must each act according to its own principles. Nonetheless, while the mind and body are different in disposition, they are...

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.

Don’t trust labels – trust logic.

Mind you, Roman Holiday – which is kind of a romantic comedy – is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they...

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

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)

To be happy and beloved have a tender heart, blissful thoughts, and a non-judgmental mind.

Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads and you cannot make your mind.

There is no hell; there is no heaven. In your mind, they are your own creation.

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of...

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.