Giambattista Vico Quotes

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care.

Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.

I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

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

First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.

If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . .

In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

I want considerate people to listen to the voice of Aikido. It is not for correcting others; it is for correcting your own mind. This is Aikido. This is the mission of Aikido and should be your mission.

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.

All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: "Is this what I really want?

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.