Committed Quote by Nadine Gordimer

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

— Walker Evans

Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind.

— Parmenides

An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever…

— Gautama Buddha

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand: if you want to know how the wind is blowing , you…

— Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

— Patanjali

The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the…

— Randall Duk Kim

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

— Edwin Schlossberg

“As much as the scientific community currently enthralled with mindfulness would like to set aside the ethical component of the Buddhist tradition to focus…

— Andrew Olendzki

“It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you've looked long neough, you realise the blank wastes…

— Annie Caulfield

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

— Jacques Barzun

A desert is a place without expectation.

— Nadine Gordimer