Pastoral Resources

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.