Alain de Botton Quotes, Home Quotes, Mind Quotes

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

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Empty your mind of all thoughts.

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Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

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As soon as I wake up I pay homage to the Buddha, and I try to prepare my mind to be more altruistic, more compassionate, during the day to come so I can be of benefit to beings. Then I do physical exersice - I walk on a treadmill.

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No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.

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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

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I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

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Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

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Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.

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If your mind dislike anything obey it

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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

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Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

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A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair

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Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

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Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

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