Quotes About Mind

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology.

Reality is where your consciousness is located

A man without words is a man without thought.

Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold.

People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.

The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the tongue nor thought out by the mind.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism