But there are at least two reasons for contemplating one's mind in even a cracked mirror.

The Anapanasati Sutta and Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta each affirm that a person first needs to practice meditation ( jnana ) to purify the mind of the five hindrances to insight before contemplating the Four Noble Truths, which begin with the nature of " dukkha " in life.

And one more note anytime in ancient Iranian history and the legends the story of walking through fire and wearing a white dress or robe is mentioned the roll of asbestos should come to mind plus it has been an ancient Iranian belief that white is equal goodness and dark or black color equal evil or wrong, it is worth contemplating where the origin of these belief might have been.

These thoughts and others run seamlessly together, so by the end of the chapter we find Mr Palomar extending his mind far beyond his garden, and contemplating the nature of the universe itself.

Looking unto God, the Prophet Isaiah wrote these blessed words almost three thousand years ago: `` Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee ''.

The words of Cardinal Newman come forcibly to mind: `` Oh how we hate one another for the love of God ''!!

Christian perfection ( or entire sanctification ), according to Wesley, is " purity of intention, dedicating all the life to God " and " the mind which was in Christ, enabling us to walk as Christ walked.

Ambrose displayed a kind of liturgical flexibility that kept in mind that liturgy was a tool to serve people in worshiping God, and ought not to become a rigid entity that is invariable from place to place.

His friend concurs, but indicates that there is a relevant disanalogy that we can't pretend to know the contents of the mind of God, while we can know the designs of other humans.

Alexander is also known for rejecting the idea that there are many things in God ’ s mind, instead claiming that it is more perfect to know just one thing.

" But for the searching and right understanding of the Scriptures there is need of a good life and a pure soul, and for Christian virtue to guide the mind to grasp, so far as human nature can, the truth concerning God the Word.

While Jonah passively finds himself forced to act under the Divine Will, the people of Nineveh actively petition God to change His mind.

" God does not change His mind ; He shows pity.

Charles Hodge writes that " The subjective change wrought in the soul by the grace of God, is variously designated in Scripture " with terms such as new birth, resurrection, new life, new creation, renewing of the mind, dying to sin and living to righteousness, and translation from darkness to light .< ref name = Hodge1 > Hodge, Charles.

According to the synoptic gospels, Christ generalised the law into two underlying principles ; The first is Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one ; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

To writers on spiritual or religious topics, it frequently connotes the relationship between the mind and God, or the relationship between the mind and deeper truths that are thought to be more fundamental than the physical world.

When prophets and general authorities of the church speak as " moved upon by the Holy Ghost ", it " shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

In Isaiah, God promises a new heaven and earth: " Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former will not be remembered nor come to mind.

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

Such massive violence led to a search for natural religious truthstruths that could be universally accepted, because they had been either " written in the book of Nature " or " engraved on the human mind " by God.

The Demiurge of Neoplatonism is the Nous ( mind of God ), and is one of the three ordering principles:

The Neo-Platonists and some early Christian philosophers argued about whether existence had any reality except in the mind of God.

The mind has betrayed them, reason is the foe of life ; ;

No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.

In his recent evaluation of Kennedy's potentialities for leadership, Walter Lippmann has cited the `` precision '' of his mind, his `` immense command '' of factual detail, and his `` instinct for the crucial point '' as impressive in the extreme ; ;

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

Faulkner has found it useful, but he has employed it with his habitual independence of mind and skeptical outlook.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

Once she has made up her mind, the queen starts out by constructing, in her chosen abode, a small `` floor '' of dried grass or some woolly material.

-- has now been raised in the reader's mind and in the following form.

Many a sitter ( in a personal sitting ) has been amazed to realize that the medium was describing very vividly his state of mind.

So this proxy situation has set up at least a partial barrier between the medium's ESP and the absent sitter's mind.

You may say this has little pertinence, but, gentlemen, remember that all this prepared my mind, alerted my intelligence.

The impression has nevertheless been given during these three days, despite Mr. Rusk's personal popularity, that the United States delegation came to Oslo in a somewhat tentative and exploratory frame of mind, more ready to listen and learn than to enunciate firm policy on a global scale with detailed application to individual danger spots.

He said that the group has no candidates for the charter commission in mind at present, but that it will undoubtedly endorse candidates when the time comes.

And third, the potato chip industry has taken on the flavor of a `` growth '' industry in the public mind of late.

In a long commentary which he has inserted in the published text of the first act of the play, he says at one point: `` However, that experience never raised a doubt in his mind as to the reality of the underworld or the existence of Lucifer's many-faced lieutenants.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

But in the Chinese mind, there was little difference between the two -- the bonzes were no more metaphysical than a magician has to be.

If the mettle which Ellen exhibits has a bit of theatrical dross in it, never mind ; ;