Baffled Quote by Wendell Berry

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer…

— Wendell Berry

“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns…

— Wendell Berry

“The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

— Wendell Berry

“Form serves us best when it works as an obstruction to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we…

— Dani Shapiro

It's the impeded stream that sings

— Wendell Berry

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images…

— Laozi

“This isn’t just your mind paying more attention—suddenly your entire body is paying attention. When this happens, it’s outside our conscious capabilities. There are…

— Steven Kotler

“Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience…

— Walter Pater

The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought…

— Lisa Mangum

“The mind itself—the seemingly solid, stable mind—dissolves into a stream of cittas flashing in and out of being moment by moment, coming from nowhere…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

“Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts…

— Jack Kerouac

“When you stop beside a river, you get this message: Flow! And when you flow, you meet the never-seen and the never-lived parts of…

— Mehmet Murat ildan