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Quotes About Mind

You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire: But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
La meta de la ciencia del yoga es aquietar la mente, para que pueda escuchar sin distorsión alguna el infalible consejo de la Voz Interior.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire: But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The greatest of all enemies of man is himself
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Hindu scriptures teach that an imperative duty of man is to keep his body in good condition; otherwise his mind is unable to remain fixed in devotional concentration.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Outward frailty has a mental origin
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire: But control of the mind is better and more difficult. In
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Outward frailty has mental origin; in a vicious circle, the habit-bound body thwarts the mind.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Do you know the Bhagavad Gita? No, sir, not really; though my eyes and mind have run through its pages many times.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the divine vision in the universe.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Thought is a force, even as electricity or gravitation. The human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of God. I could show you that whatever your powerful mind believes very intensely would instantly come to pass.' "Knowing
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Keen intelligence is two-edged," Master once remarked in reference to Kumar's brilliant mind. "It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The burning Indian imagination, which can extort new order out of a mass of apparently contradictory facts, is held in check by the habit of concentration. This restraint confers the power to hold the mind to the pursuit of truth with an infinite patience.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
As all things can be reflected in water, so the whole universe is mirrored in the lake of the Cosmic Mind.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Mi maestro siempre me pedía que meditara dondequiera que viese una extensión de agua. Aquí, su placidez nos recuerda la inmensa serenidad de Dios. Así como todas las cosas pueden reflejarse en el agua, así todo el universo se refleja en el lago de la Mente Cósmica
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
One who occupies his mind with an unholy interest in the moral weaknesses of others actually rouses and stimulates his own sleeping prenatal baser instincts.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Totusi, destul de iute simplicitatea actului sexual m-a plictisit; in cele mai rele excese percepeam monotonie si patos mult. Oricat de puternica era desfatarea, ea nu era niciodata destul de puternica. Mi-am dat seama atunci ca trupul e limitat, spre deosebire de gand.
~ Pascal Bruckner
În fond, n-ai fost niciodat? decât o creaÈ›ie a minÈ›ii mele, un idol pe care-l susÈ›ineam cu braÈ›ele; vedeam numai idolul, nu È™i efortul braÈ›elor mele.
~ Pascal Bruckner
in my experience men are curiously blind to aggression in women. They're the warriors, with their helmets and armour, their swords and spears, and they don't seem to see our battles—or they prefer not to. Perhaps if they realized we're not the gentle creatures they take us for their own peace of mind would be disturbed?
~ Pat Barker
Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head.
~ Pat Barker
in my experience, men are curiously blind to aggression in women. They're the warriors, with their helmets and armor, their swords and spears, and they don't seem to see our battles - or they prefer not to. Perhaps if they realised we're not the gentle creatures they take us for, their own peace of mind would be disturbed?
~ Pat Barker
Her secret, we would discover, was that once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.
~ Pat Conroy