Quotes About Mind

Most people's lives are cluttered up with things: material things, things to do, things to think about. Their lives are like the history of humanity, which Winston Churchill defined as "one damn thing after another." Their minds are filled up with the clutter of thoughts, one thought after another.

Whatever you identify with turns into ego.

Pažnja. Ovdje i sad. Probudi se.

The egoic mind is completely conditioned by the past. Its conditioning is twofold: It consists of content and structure.

It is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

Jesus gave the key to the creative use of mind and to the conscious manifestation of form when he said, "Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."4

T]he moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what is, you are free of the mind.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honour and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfilment in whatever form. Both are illusions

Sometimes the "fault" that you perceive in another isn't even there. It is a total misinterpretation, a projection by a mind conditioned to see enemies and to make itself right or superior. At other times, the fault may be there, but by focusing on it, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else, you amplify it. And what you react to in another, you strengthen in yourself.

You have already understood the basic mechanics of the unconscious state: identification with the mind, which creates a false self, the ego, as a substitute for your true self rooted in Being.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

The moment you truly forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind.

End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops — unless you choose to use it. To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

In other words, the content of the ego may change; the mind structure that keeps it alive does not.

Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression.

The mind absorbs all your consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff. You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your whole sense of who you are is then derived from mind activity.

You mean stop thinking altogether? No, I can't, except maybe for a moment or two. Then the mind is using you. You are unconsciously identified with it, so you don't even know that you are its slave. It's almost as if you were possessed without knowing it, and so you take the possessing entity to be yourself. The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity — the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity.

La mente egotista colectiva es la entidad más peligrosamente demente y destructiva que jamás habitó este planeta.

Sometimes the 'fault' you perceive in another isn't even there. It is a total misinterpretation, a projection by a mind conditioned to see enemies and to make itself right or superior. At other times, the fault may be there, but by focusing on it, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else, you amplify it. And what you react to in another, you strengthen in yourself.

To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly —you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Para el ego, el momento presente casi no existe. Lo único que se considera importante es el pasado y el futuro. Esta inversión total de la verdad es la causante de que en su "modalidad ego", la mente sea tan disfuncional. Está siempre preocupada de mantener el pasado vivo porque sin él ¿quién es usted? Se proyecta constantemente hacia el futuro para asegurar su supervivencia y para buscar algún tipo de alivio o de realización en él.

preocu-parse". A veces esta pista de sonido va acompañada por imágenes visuales o "películas mentales". Incluso si la voz es relevante para la situación del momento, la interpretará de acuerdo con el pasado. Esto se debe a que la voz pertenece a su mente condicionada