Mind Limitations Quotes

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds

Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

We can only learn so much about our minds, because we are using our minds to do so.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."

Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.