If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
I want to know how the mind works.
Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.