Marilynne Robinson Quotes

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

Life is but thought.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

Life is consciousness.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

At times I think and at times I am.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

We are what our thoughts have made us

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

I desire therefore I exist.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Our life is a creation of our mind.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

Mind is the creator of everything.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!