Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

I think Easterners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their mind about God, and I think Westerners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their heart center about God.

I think that it is true that for me as I observe it, that the Western World tends to be more of , tends to encompass more of, the masculine energy of the planet itself, the planet's population. Whereas the Eastern part of the world tends to encompass more of the planet's population's feminine aspects. And for those reasons the East and the West tend to approach God very much as men and women do. So the differences between East and West are the differences between men and women, largely.

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to heaven or paradise or the power in our minds.

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

Man can be happy and safe only when the heart feels faster than the mind thinks.

The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.

Very often when I see people who are perceived to be, or who call themselves progressives, sometimes I see an imbalance. Yes I understand the courage in their mind but I don't see the spirituality in their heart, good you are questioning the limits, but what about yourself, are you also liberating yourself?

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

The mind can't take you where your heart longs to go.