Mind-Body Relationship Quotes

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

The body and mind are dependent.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.