Mind Quotations | Page 2

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.