Mind

I didn't mind people staring at the long scratches made by the stern thorns of the boor-geresy bush. I was just happy to be on my way again after my time in Erewhon.

Off the Flight Path: Adventures in Erewhon, Tasmania and Kerguelen – Eta Sonnok, 1967

My veiw of mind is that it is an odd word to be given such differing meanings. As a young girl I was amazed when my granny would say to me, »Now mind you not to spill that juice since if you spill it you will have a stain on your waist and everyone will wonder where your mind could have been.« She was, of course, most worried about the garment that she referred to as my waist since it was hand-made by herself and was made of lovely silk which I very much liked even if I did call it a blouse.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

(P. B. Medawar)

i don't mind, do you?

A mind is a kind of semi-transparent bluish-white rectangle with rounded edges. It is also very nearly non-existent.

Too much work to do! It's enough to boggle the mind!!

my mind hurts when i think too much. often, i forget to remember.

The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

(H. P. Lovecraft)

I think empty would be the opposite of mind.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

(Herman Hesse)

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

(Aristotle)

anguish is embracing my mind
as i walk backward
into the nowhere

I think I've been going out of my mind for so long that I've stopped minding about it. Except first thing in the morning, that is....