Mind Quote by Gaston Bachelard

“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plentitude of the soul. —GASTON BACHELARD”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

— John Locke

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since…

— Gaston Bachelard

“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work,…

— Victor Hugo

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

— Victor Hugo

“Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. To replace thought by reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.”

— Victor Hugo

A mind in the present moment is meditation.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding…

— Gaston Bachelard

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

— Jim Dodge

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert

“Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

Meditation is bringing the mind home.

— Sogyal Rinpoche