Dallas Willard Quotes

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

I think we have to monitor our minds the way we need to monitor our bodies.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

You control the doorway to your mind.

Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.