6,568 Quotes About Mind

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

In literature, words are used to give pleasures to your mind. In spirituality, words are used to take you beyond mind into the ultimate bliss of wordlessness (silence). Many seekers mistake spirituality as literature. They just enjoy the use of poetic words and stories.

Only love can handle honesty, not attachment. Hence love is free from lies while attachment is the breeding ground of lies.

A fish swam a thousand miles through the river and finally met the ocean. The Ocean laughed at this and said, “You are clearly joking. You are a local fish.”Often we do a lot for our family and friends. But then, in just one instant, everything is forgotten. Not just that, we suddenly become villain for them.

Because our minds are problem-solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.

Turn your attention inward and explore the stillness that lives within.

In cricket fielding, if catch comes right in your hand, there is no fun. You enjoy the most when you have to dive to catch the ball. This is what playfulness is all about. Difference between being a servant of someone and surrendering to someone is playfulness. Don’t make things too easy in your relationship with your spouse or children or gods. Keep the playfulness alive.

If your one Rupee is pending with a shopkeeper, you would go to that shop again even if you have to spend 10 Rupees fuel. Same thing happens in relationships. If you have invested a few precious moments in someone, it becomes very difficult to leave. This is how Maya (Space-Time) keeps a soul attached birth after birth.

Like the small moon eclipses the Sun, your mind is eclipsing your soul, which shines inside you with the power of a thousand Suns.