MIND / SPIRIT

Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimension.

George Bernard Shaw
If you leave the smallest corner of your mind open for a moment, other people’s opinion will rush in from all quarters.

Herbert V. Prochnow
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.

Mark Twain
In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. 

Pat Bahn
If the human mind were simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

Henry David Thoreau
Imagination: It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

William Butler Yeats
Imagination: People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of their mind.

Andrew Young
I have concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our best thoughts come from others.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
A moment of insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

Alice A. Bailey
Little things please little minds.

Nolan Bushnell
Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.

Harish Johari
If you feel that you are not enlightened, you can always try to be.

Alan Cohen
• Matter is an expression of spirit, so the only thing that matters is spirit.
• Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

A Course in Miracles (Book)
You are affected only by your thoughts.