- “It is considered as artadhyan (adverse internal state that results in hurting the self) only when the mind and the Self (Soul) become engrossed with one another; and also when one does not realize that artadhyan has occurred. And if one realizes that artadhyan has occurred, then it is not called artadhyan; then it is the mind.” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.” ― Manprit Kaur
- “So, which is it? Does matter create mind? Or does mind create matter? Scientific materialists have never made any progress whatsoever in explaining how matter produces mind. Mind can easily explain the production of matter – via autonomous Fourier immaterial frequency functions finding collective expression in a Fourier material spacetime world. It’s the collective rather than individual nature of this mental activity that makes it seem “physical”, and which gives rise to the delusion of the existence of matter. It’s all in the math.” ― Mike Hockney, Black Holes Are Souls
- “Have a loving heart and a beautiful mind.” ― Debasish Mridha M.D.
- “It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.” ― Oliver Bowden, Assassin’s Creed: The Secret Crusade
- “If you want to see the beauty of any fish, throw it into the water, you will see how best it can swim because that is its source. Do you want to see the beauty in you? Don’t look in the mirror, don’t put on makeups, no jewelleries or expensive designer clothes, just go back and reconnect to your source and I bet, the best of you will show up. Until you return back to God, your best won’t come out because He is your source.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.” ― Roy Bennett
- “The mind of a resourceful woman always thinks of improving lives.” ― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
- The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. Augustine of Hippo
- “We do not need an ashram or church, some secret initiation, a guru’s blessing, or an intentional community. As helpful or supportive as those may be at times, ultimately, what we need is the willingness to look at ourselves honestly, to feel what emotions lie within us, to acknowledge our thoughts and actions, to choose to be aware of what we ignore or suppress, and to let go of what limits and distracts us so we can open ourselves fully to the truth of life in this moment.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
- “You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Relax, you’re just playing a role. Your original self is powerful and eternal.” ― Shunya
- “In your life, everything revolves around your mind.” ― Saad Shah
- “He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.” ― James Allen
- “Imagine you have to choose something out of ten options and you have very little time. You will choose what is best for you. But if you have a lot of time, you will set aside the best option and try other options.This is the trick of Time. Subconsciously, we are assured that we have a lot of time. So the best option doesn’t seem attractive to us. We ignore it. Other options give us more kick. They seem more attractive. That is why most of us fall into wrong relationships. And the rest of us get rejected by those for whom we were the best option.” ― Shunya
- “The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called “doublethink,” and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call “dissociation.” It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . .” ― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
- “Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.” ― Rashedur Ryan Rahman
- “We are losing our most important connections: with nature, with our communities, and even with our own bodies and minds.” ― Freequill
- “Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.” ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
- “Mind happily consumes information but it resists transformation. The day you allow yourself to be transformed, a Guru will appear before you in visible or invisible form.” ― Shunya
- “But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.” ― Bodhidharma, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
- The only way to conquer the mind is to stop fighting it. Sven Schnieders
- “Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.” ― Doug Dillon
- “Nothing can give you peace if there is no calmness in your mind.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “The journey of Yoga and Meditation teaches the purpose of human life. The life is enriched with the transformation of body, mind and soul.” ― Purvi Raniga
- “When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.” ― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold
- “We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth, whatever it may turn out to be. This requires a state of openness, curiosity, and sincerity, a state of pure awareness, a state of observing reality without jumping to conclusions about what reality is. This state of direct experience is known in Zen as “beginner’s mind,” and it is essential to embody this state when we want to understand our experience.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “Meditation is cure for the mind.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- The mind’s direction is more important than its progress. Joseph Joubert
- “In movies, they use exaggeration to stimulate your mind, Reverse is also true, When your mind is stimulated (by a sad or happy event), you start exaggerating things. Your problem is not as big as your mind makes you believe. To get real perspective, go out, take a walk. observe life around you.” ― Shunya