"We want our minds to be clear -- not so we can think clearly, but so we can be open in our perceptions."

-- M.C. Richards

"Letting your mind control your life is like letting an eight-year-old drive your car."

-- Shiva Rea

"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."

-- Emerson

"Stopping the mind does not bring wisdom, what brings wisdom is understanding the nature of the mind..."

-- Stephen Levine

"It takes a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."

-- Aristotle

"There is nothing wrong with God's creation; mystery and suffering only exist in the mind."

-- Ramana Maharshi

"The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."

-- Samuel Johnson

"Go out of your mind and come to your senses."

-- Fritz Perls

"The less credence we give to our minds ongoing activity, the more we detach from identifying with that activity, the less it wears us out."

-- Brad Blanton

"Of the universal mind, each individual man is one more incarnation."

-- Emerson

"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."

-- Alan Watts

"It's all in the mind

Fear, anxiety, doubt

Breathe in, breathe out."

-- Patrick Delos Reyes

"To go beyond the mind, a well-furnished mind is not needed."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Nothing of value can happen to a mind that knows exactly what it wants."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"A mind is a terrible thing; waste it."

-- Brad Blanton

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

-- John Milton

"Mind create the abyss, the heart crosses it."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj