6,568 Quotes About Mind

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

I don’t want enlightenment. I want to enjoy this life. There is a reason why God gifted us with a mind and five senses. We wouldn’t be having them if our goal was to undermine their existence. We are here to feel. Emotions, pleasure and pain of all sorts. Becoming emotionally numb is, therefore, not our purpose. It certainly can never be!

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

There are people who fear XYZ. And then there are those who are obsessed with XYZ. These are two extremes.If you're on one extreme, get to know the other extreme. It will help you come to the middle where there is peace.

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

Tranquility is a state of the mind, desired by the soul, to calm the spirit, and make the body free from stress.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.