Quotes About Mind

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

Happiness lies in your own hand

With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

Happiness is the default state of mind, lets reconfigure to reach the default state !

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.