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Category Archives: MIND
I tell you, when it comes to asking stupid questions and giving crazy answers, I don’t need to go looking for help from my neighbours.”
DON QUIXOTE Volume 2, Chapter 22, pg. 476
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
“She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party — Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.” ― Lawren Leo, Love’s Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs. Andy Warhol
Growl not at guests, nor drive them from the gate but show thyself gentle to the poor. Viking.
The quiet spirit of a good man is like the clear water of the fountain ; but the restless mind of the wicked is like the dirty waves of the sea, when the mire of the bottom is stirred up by their motions
The thought has good wings, and the quill a good tongue.
“You’re only a man! You’ve not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
― Georgette Heyer, Powder And Patch
Great Minds Drink Alike
“Death: “THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT.”
Albert: “Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
― Terry Pratchett
Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood. (Turkish).
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati 1940 – 2012
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. Arabian Proverb
The Market-Place
My mind is like a clamorous market-place.
All day in wind, rain, sun, its babel wells;
Voice answering to voice in tumult swells.
Chaffering and laughing, pushing for a place,
My thoughts haste on, gay, strange, poor, simple, base;
This one buys dust, and that a bauble sells:
But none to any scrutiny hints or tells
The haunting secrets hidden in each sad face.
The clamour quietens when the dark draws near;
Strange looms the earth in twilight of the West,
Lonely with one sweet star serene and clear,
Dwelling, when all this place is hushed to rest,
On vacant stall, gold, refuse, worst and best,
Abandoned utterly in haste and fear.
I know not what to do, my mind is divided. Sappho
What now I desire above all in my
Mad heart. ‘Whom now, shall I persuade
To admit you again to her love,
Sappho, who wrongs you now?
MANY A WORD IS SPOKEN IN ANGER
Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind. One said, “The flag moves.” The other said, “The wind moves.” They argued back and forth but could not agree. Hui-neng, the sixth Patriarch, said: “Gentlemen! It is not the flag that moves. It is not the wind that moves. It is your mind that moves.” The two monks were struck with awe.
Sam Langer
The Argument
It is windy out there. Back
home an argument continues.
We could be swimming, eating,
going for a walk, pointing
at a bird. Taking batteries
to the emergency. How many
birds do I have? Have I had?
The hydra in the sunshine.
I could be sitting in a
window composing the postal
service on an invisible grid
of trumpets. My skull could be
whizzing through weeks worth of
nests. I could be a fish,
on a train.
“A clever wife often sleeps with a stupid husband.”
-Chinese
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer
The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don’t see until It’s all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated. JOHN ASHBERY, “Houseboat Days”
Read more at http://www.notable-quotes.com/m/mind_quotes.html#jOQJkXWiguUpjRMg.99
The World’s News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 1955), Saturday 5 March 1910, 
His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Speak like a parrot; meditate like a swan; chew like a goat; and bathe like an elephant. Indian
Judith Bishop
Swan Lake
As music curves through the body, the swing of it
lifting mind’s invisible feet, so it happened
a ballet I’d gone to in the days after breaking up
with someone who had found me rather clumsy
left behind a troupe of swans in my heart.
Now the inner band played on, a waltz as searing
as a light too brightly shining in a room that should be dark,
and the swans, pirouetting through the dark
and joyful moments of the plot, took my heart
dancing, till the grief that remained
turned to a mood of gentle swanning
through the fine, vacated ballroom of the mind;
till the swans evaporated with a cry.
Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out. Cardinal Wolsey
http://www.songs4teachers.com/inspiration.htm
Which artist painted that?
Andrew Burke
Chances are the artist attends school now
and learns more and more logic
and language skills each day. Still
ocean seeks grass, river reflects
sky. His poem about a truck
is illustrated and pinned on
the display board. In his poem
the truck carries things
and drives between shops, but
it has a disquietening element the author
will not change: his truck drives
north, it seeks North unerringly.
Teachers dismiss this as
a blemish, Father wants to know
how the truck will ever return to base,
and Mother tousles his hair, saying,
He’s just a boy, he’s just a boy.
Grandpa bends down to ask,
Do you want to be a truckdriver
when you grow up? No, he shakes
his head, a scientist, only
a scientist. Can’t they see that?
http://leswicks.tripod.com/apcarchive.htm
The Past Is Like An Anchor
http://thedailyquotes.com/post/12095
foto – anchors wharf cafe urunga
Of sickness’ sweetest
Anchoring back to the soul
Lie in mind cocaine
Love came up to me showing me that a contented mind is best for growth.
- Sacred text: The Yasna 43
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Late Summer Fires
LES MURRAY
The paddocks shave black
with a foam of smoke that stays,
welling out of red-black wounds.
In the white of a drought
this happens. The hardcourt game.
Logs that fume are mostly cattle,
inverted, stubby. Tree stumps are kilns.
Walloped, wiped, hand-pumped,
even this day rolls over, slowly.
At dusk, a family drives sheep
out through the yellow
of the Aboriginal flag.
from
Subhuman Redneck Poems, 1996
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
A swing grinds on its chains.
A child sits pushing.
There’s no eucalyptus,
atlas pine, or flowering ash,
no other child is calling
from the tender modulations of leaves:
just each note
of her ringing hear,
the feeling of being pushed
into the air.
Judith Beveridge
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/676/15/Judith-Beveridge
Let the mind be like the lake that reflects all of the clouds passing over it without any sticking to it.
Zen Proverb
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
William Wordsworth
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Ropes that are too long become snakes.
Corsican
The hard work of keeping an addicted mind focused is more challenging than you might think. An addicted mind (even one in recovery) is very prone to distractibility. It has been trained to seek immediate rewards and doesn’t tolerate waiting very well. If the mood or desire strikes, the drug addict will act impulsively. Drug seeking behaviour, taking off in the middle of something, becoming aggressive or argumentative – all of these behaviours stem from the immediate gratification “training” of addiction.
Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.”
― Xavier Forneret
The seduction of evil is precisely in that it involves us in trying to get rid of it.
– Thaddeus Golas in “The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment”
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and to insight, “You are my relative.”
They will keep you from the adulterous woman,
from the wayward woman with her seductive words.
Proverbs 7
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth. Manu
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
REBECCA WEST, The Meaning of Treason
http://www.notable-quotes.com/t/truth_quotes.html
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
“If you have a problem that can be fixed, then there is no use in worrying. If you have a problem that cannot be fixed, then there is no use in worrying.”
– Buddhist proverb
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks
“Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
– Pat Conroy
Never cuss bridge that you cross.
http://www.guyana.org/proverbs.html
“Every path we take in life, we make the decision to pursue a dream. We travel the path of our dreams on a mental path of a narrow bridge; we must stay focused on our goal and not fear, lest we lose our balance of purpose and fall.”
― Ellen J. Barrier
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 