#mind

My mind remains wide, so my place is naturally remote. ↗

— Tao Yuan Ming

#nature

You must know that weather or not you are practicing mental prayer has nothing to do with keeping your lips closed. If, while I am speaking with God, I am fully conscious of doing so, and if this is more real to me than the words I am uttering, then I am combining mental and vocal prayer. I am amazed when people tell me that you are speaking with God by reciting the Paternoster even while you are thinking of worldly things. When you speak with a Lord so great, you should think of Who it is you are addressing and what you yourself are, if only that you may speak to Him with proper respect. How can you address a king with the reverence he deserves unless you are clearly conscious of his position and yours? ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#mindfulness #respect

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#close #evolution #guesses #heart #mind

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#mind #thought-provoking #dreams

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#first #generous #great #last #minds

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#simile #work

It's all in the mind. ↗

— George Harrison

#mind #perception #psychology #perception

All problems are illusions of the mind. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#mind #problem #teaching

Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find. ↗

— James A. Kitchens

#perception #reality #perception

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#thought