#mind

How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light ↗

— Mary Oliver

#nature #poetry #death

God has given all of us both the mind and the heart. And He fully expects us to use them ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#mind #mind-body-spirit #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles. ↗

— Bjork

#could #having #i #mind #nerd

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ↗

— Mark Twain

#i #make #me #mind #much

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#psychoanalysis #psychology #sexuality #subconscious #yoga

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play. ↗

— Eric Bana

#beauty #big #i #i think #just

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#grenades #hand #having #i #into

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. ↗

— Sean Bean

#am #common #easy-going #fair #guess

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#eyes #i #me #need #quotations

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#cerebral #intestine #mind #minds #occupied