#mind

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#barely #billions #declaring #go #harmony

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#efforts #essence #exhaust #fly #human

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#circumstances #confronting #does #him #justice

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#disposition #mind #passion #simply #temperance

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#contemplation #cutting #cutting edge #edge #grasped

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#dedicate #delight #deserve #desire #give

To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjöld

#path #zen #zen

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. ↗

— Gary Snyder

#dharma #gary #mind #snyder #zen

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#dissociation #mind #stoicism #transcendence #zen

To get something different, you must do something different. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-power #self-help #stephen-richards #law-of-attraction