Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terence McKenna

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

Terence McKenna

The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.

Terence McKenna

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

Terence McKenna

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

Terence McKenna

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

Terence McKenna

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

Terence McKenna

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

Terence McKenna

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

Teddy Thompson

The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.

Temple Grandin

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Temple Grandin

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Ram Dass

Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?

Shania Twain

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

Selena Gomez

I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.

Sean Lennon

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

Shunryu Suzuki

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

Shunryu Suzuki

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

Shunryu Suzuki

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Sheldon Adelson

I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.

Seth

Your intent to find a mate sends out 'strands of consciousness' however, composed of desire and intent. Like detectives, these search the world, looking in a completely different way than a physical sleuth. The world is probed with your characteristics in mind, seeking for someone else with characteristics that will best suit your own.

Lewis Mumford

The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.

Lewis Thomas

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.

Lewis Thomas

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

Lewis Thomas

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

Leonard Orr

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.