Markus Zusak Quotes

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting down and writing lyrics, just free-form writing, whatever's going on in my mind.

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

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 run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.

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

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

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

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

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.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.