Quotes About Mental cultivation

Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.

He who exercises his reason and cultivates it seems to be both in the best state of mind and most dear to the gods.

The third one is culturing the mind. One who has never meditated has no right to even touch the book of Ashtavakra.

For a thinking man, the main thing is to develop that person within

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren't.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren't.

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had better things to do.

Principles early sown in the mind, are the seeds which produce fruit and harvest in the ripe state of manhood.

Recall what has been said about the subconscious mind resembling a fertile garden spot, in which weeds will grow in abundance, if the seeds of more desirable crops are not sown therein.

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

They're blind to a simple truth: complex minds can't develop on their own. If they could, feral children would be like any other. And minds don't grow the way weeds do, flourishing under indifferent attention; otherwise all children in orphanages would thrive. For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.

The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild;

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind.

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, birng forth.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

Her mind was less difficult to develop.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Meditating regularly is like being fertilized. Throw the fertilizer on the ground and whatever is in the ground - either good or bad seeds - will grow. Everything, whether vice or virtue, is magnified. Unless a person in the spiritual path practices character-building, (s)he may tend to become worse.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.