“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Regarding perfection, that’s a very difficult question. I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice]. I am in… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Processes of avoiding the world within in order to try to regulate your behavior, or becoming entangled in your thoughts interfering with… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind,… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
Cerise ran through the course in her mind. “Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller’s Path.” She paused,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird,… — Rza Copy Share Image
There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it,… — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
If I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
[Shoji] Hamada's [drawings] were little one-line notations of something he wanted to remember about a pot or a piece of furniture or… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
With all the travel we're doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game.… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Sitting in the deserted law offices, Sanders had the feeling that he was all alone in the world, with nobody but Fernandez… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
This is a very stressful profession. Not just coaching, but head coaching at this level with all of the variables that you… — Frank Vogel Copy Share Image
Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
...And while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn't bother them at… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
“Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will… — Alfred Wainwright Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast. You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled… — Bryan Talbot Copy Share Image
“He was there for you, and yet at the same time he was inaccessible. You felt there was a secret core in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image