Sentence examples for mind of passion from inspiring English sources

As the Psalmist writes, the one who will be permitted to ascend the hill of the Lord is the one whose hands are clean, whose fingers do not reach for idols -- idols either of the heart or mind, of passion or intellect, of philosophy or (God help us!) theology.

This realization is extremely difficult to achieve and therefore Sāṃkhya proposes first of all to clear the mind of the passions [SSu 2.15] by separating them from cognition and then to free the mind from cognition in order to comprehend contentless consciousness.

Odysseus's arrival home meant that he had achieved the goal of a good man, which is to have his mind free of passions.

What it did not do was communicate the raging emotions of Berlioz's program, which describes a man losing his mind to passion.

If a radio host were to make similar negative statements about a public figure in order to generate good conversation, I wouldn't mind hearing that type of passion and opinion.

Calm of mind all passion spent, as her third husband used to say so annoyingly after his Viagra sessions.

"Macey has written a prodigiously researched, absorbing book about the mind and passion of a 20th-century revolutionary," Adam Shatz said here last year.

She sat on the set of "Passion of Mind" in Paris and felt things coming apart.

Apparently she's the kind of driven negotiator it would take to sell the mild Harlequin Romance simple-mindedness of "Passion of Mind".

Kirkus: "An unfailingly elegant and thoughtful collection of essays from the formidable mind of Franzen, written with passion and haunted by loss".

Outlining her theories in a preface to "A Series of Plays: In Which It Is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind -- Each Passion Being the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy," published in 1798, she emphasizes psychological depth.