The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's a very strange thing to suddenly be approached in the street and have streams of messages, and not know how to… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“In an instant he saw the delusion of his five hundred years. He was not looking into a box; he was looking… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only… — Mooji Copy Share Image
When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult… — John Collison Copy Share Image
“Hawk's belly sunk hollow, black and empty, much like his chest that corroded desire into something nasty and wrong. Hawk paced until… — V. Theia Copy Share Image
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“If he couldn’t go back, he would just have to do things differently going forward. He felt how infinitely safer and more… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a… — Phil Crane Copy Share Image
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now I find that in a state of pure obedience the mind learns contentment in appearing weak and foolish to that wisdom… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Forget your sadness, anger, grudges, and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in the breeze. You should not deviate from the… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point when you need to know it. It's the… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
“Every human being has the right to be rich in mind, body and spirit. They need to live a life that is… — Anthony Pan Copy Share Image
The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?'… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Look at 'Avatar:' the foreign ticket sales were over twice the domestic returns. The mind boggles at those kinds of numbers, but… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
“An anxious expression spread over his face as he thought to himself that the time was coming when he would have to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
There's downtime in music, which obviously is necessary or else you'd lose your mind in other ways, but if we're on tour… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
“Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind — the mind as… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
With acting, you gotta keep in mind everyone has a different method, experience, education, and how they do their craft. I'm not… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
