By a curious perversity, the human mind refuses to behave itself on the occasions when it should be intensely dramatic. It was so now; the climber suddenly forgot his fears in a smile. The choir had chosen this precise moment to start the Nunc Dimittis.
WhipplesnaithTo love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.
Barbara HurdTag: imagination life perception change mind water light shadow place bog swamp
In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.
Barbara HurdTag: perception mind water self dream magic meditation body iris circle palmetto
... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
E.A. BucchianeriTag: man planning plans mind mankind philosophical faust sad-but-true artifice marlowe imprison christopher-marlowe faustus faustian when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart grand-plans imprisionment
... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!
E.A. BucchianeriTag: liberty pain free-will freedom mind tyranny heart persecution depression heartache catholic-author suppression gadfly free-choice
The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.
Bret Easton EllisTag: mind failure defense uselessness restructure
Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.
Dean KoontzTag: beauty mind emotions perfection damaged twisted
Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.
John FowlesTag: nature death mind form matter
Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
James AllenMemoria - fie memoria individuală, fie memoria colectivă care este cultura - are o dublă funcție. Una, într-adevăr, e să conserve anumite date, cealaltă să cufunde în uitare informațiile ce nu ne folosesc și care ne-ar putea încărca inutil mințile.
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