Mind Quotes: mind sayings, quotations, picture quotes

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Short Witty Humor Simile

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.

Short Time Simile

The mind is a tool for exploration, not for drawing conclusions

Short Truth Wisdom

If you stand on the garbage heap of your mind, your feet will never touch the ground.

Short Truth Wisdom Yoga

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

Short Truth Humor Women

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul

Short Soul

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Short Consciousness

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Short Book

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Short

If you do not want to make judgments, you have to bring a certain equanimity to your mind.

Short Judgement

You can use this mind either to create wellbeing or misery for yourself. Everyone has this choice.

Short Choice

To a great mind, nothing is little

Short

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Short Control Thinking

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Short Suffering Book Reading

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Short Perspective

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Short Fear Ignorance Understanding

Your problem is just this - your body and your mind are not taking instructions from you, that's all.

Short Problems Body

With age, your physical agility may go down; your aliveness need not go down

Short Body

A true hero is someone who has tamed these rutting elephants that you call "mind" and "ego"

Short

Suffering is not showered upon us, it is manufactured. And the manufacturing unit is in your mind

Short Suffering

An idle mind is Divine's workshop. An Idler's mind is devil's workshop.

Short Witty Spirituality

If you know how to bring clarity to your mind, you will see the whole existence is open.

Short Existence

If you tell your mind "Don't do this," that is all it will do.

Short Truth

All the suffering you have within you (mind) was created by you

Short One liners Suffering

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Life Short Humans

Fear arises simply because you are not living with life - you are living in your mind

Life Short Wisdom Fear

The mind is like a mirror. A concave mirror exaggerates. A convex mirror depreciates. A plain mirror shows you life the way it is

Life Philosophy Wisdom Analogy

Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.

Life Memory Limitation Future

The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.

Life Thought The light in the heart

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Life Short

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Life Reality

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

Life

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Life Insult

Unless you begin to perceive life in larger and larger doses, there is really no experience of life, just mind playing over and over, same record. Yoga means breaking this cycle

Life Experience Memory Yoga

Most of the times unfortunately, most people's minds are working against them

Life Being human

For most people life means their job, life means the new house, the car that they bought, their wife, their husband, their children. No! Life is what's throbbing within, not even your body, not your mind, not your thought, not your emotion. What is right now throbbing within you is life. Only because this is ON everything else seems to be meaningful

Life Truth Wisdom Emotions

Once you are trapped in your mental framework, there's no space to experience life in its full glory

Life Experience

If you stop your mental muddle, life is bliss.

Life Short Self control

Mental suffering essentially comes from a loss of perspective as to what life is all about.

Life Perspective Loss Suffering

The need for meaning is only of the mind. Life has no need for meaning. You are alive - that's beautiful, and that's it.

Life

The life within you is not there to serve your body, mind or emotion. The body, mind and emotion are there to serve life

Life Emotions Perspective Body

Human problems are not of life - human problems are just of the mind.

Life Short Problems Humans

Spiritual process means life is happening in its fullest and most vibrant dimension - not just physically, mentally, and emotionally - on all levels

Life Emotions Spirituality

Life is inclusive. Only your mind is exclusive

Life Short Inclusiveness

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections

Life Short

The conclusions that you make in your mind can seriously impede your ability to experience life

Life Short Experience Limitation

Once in a way, something may go wrong in your life. But if your mind and your energies are focused on beating yourself up, it will become a series of disasters

Life

The life within you cannot be unpleasant. Unpleasantness is created in the mind

Life

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Change Short Humor

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Change Short

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Change Thought Opinion

Since you alone are responsible for what goes on in your mind, only you can change your thoughts.

Change Short Wisdom Responsibility

Habits are simply thoughts grooved deeply into the brain. The needle of the mind plays those records of habits again and again. Even the chemistry of the body responds, as with addiction. Applying mind and will can change those patterns

Change Habit Thought Body

Comfort comes from the mind. Change your mental attitude and you will not feel discomfort.

Change Short Comfort Attitude

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

Change Short Human nature

Never judge others. You know well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.

Change Life Experience Judgement

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Change Short Fear Humans

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Change Meditation

Man's consciousness, when constantly identified with material changes or mental disturbances, cannot mirror the immutable Divine, whose image is present within him as his true Self, or soul.

Change Soul Consciousness Man

A changeable mind perceives a changeable creation, and is easily disturbed; the unchangeable soul and the unruffled mind, on the other hand, behold, behind the masks of change, the Eternal Spirit

Change Soul

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

Change

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Heart Love Individuality

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Heart Short Feeling

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Heart Short

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Heart Character Understanding

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Heart Love Short

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Heart Short

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

Heart Spirit

Because fear kills everything... Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Heart Imagination Short Fear

The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.

Heart Humor

Remember that every time you worry, you put on a mental brake; and in struggling against that resistance, you place strain on your heart and mind.

Heart

If you want to explore the deepest dimensions of life playfully, you need a heart full of love, a joyful mind, and a vibrant body

Heart Life Love Joy

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Truth Reality Human nature

Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.

Funny Short

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Funny Thinking

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Inspirational Short Responsibility

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Education Wisdom Thought

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Education Heart Short

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Inspirational Strength Power Self control

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Imagination Humor Knowledge

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Education Character Society

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

Desire Inspirational Success Analogy

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Courage Inspirational Life Truth

Once there is a distance between you and your body, once there is a distance between you and your mind this is the end of suffering, this being cannot suffer any more; question of conflict doesn't arise.

Wisdom Suffering Body

Being fit for life means- hardness in the body, sharpness in your mind & softness in your heart.

Happiness Heart Life Body

If you try to give up something, it will rule your mind. But, if you find something deeper in life, the less significant will just fall off

Inspirational Life Success Truth

Those who restrain the external organs of action, while continuing to dwell on sense objects in the mind, certainly delude themselves and are to be called hypocrites.

Action

For those who have conquered the mind, the mind is their friend. For those who have failed to do so, the mind acts like an enemy.

Philosophy Wisdom Enemy Self control

Just as a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, so the disciplined mind of a yogi remains steady in meditation

Analogy Meditation Yoga Bhagavad gita

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you

Happiness Positive Attitude

Attachment to pleasure or aversion to pain both destroy the equilibrium of the inner nature

Pleasure

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

Humanity

Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to.

Inspirational The light in the heart

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

Humor

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

Book

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Reality Humans

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Funny Inspirational Short

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Perception

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Morality Intelligence

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind.

Philosophy Short Humor

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, Where knowledge is free... into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Freedom Hope Fear

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Education Short Wisdom Experience

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

Truth Wisdom Self control

We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Responsibility

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Beauty Heart Inspirational Life

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Intelligence

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

You can only sharpen a blade so far... In the end, it comes down to the quality of the metal

Truth Personality

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Inspirational Short Character Strength

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Education Children

If your mind took instructions from you, would you keep it stressful or blissful? Blissful. For yourself definitely it's blissfulness. What you want for your neighbor may be debatable but what you want for yourself is definitely highest level of pleasantness

Funny

The beauty of the child is that he is flexible, that is all that is needed to happen to adults too, that is the most important aspect

Beauty Change Children

(On Soul Mates) Body needs a mate, understandable, mind needs a mate to some extent. The soul if it needs a mate, it's a lost soul

Funny Humor Soul Body

To create fear, you have to use excessive imagination- you are creating things that have not happened. What may happen, in your mind happens in 1000 different formats & most probably it never happens, 99% of the times it never happens. To not be in fear, you don't have to do anything

Imagination Fear

Fear means you're producing horror movies in your mind. Tch.. Nobody else is willing to watch. That's bad for the producer, but you are producing them. So, you produce something else - produce a comedy, a love story..

Funny Witty Fear Humor

If sex is in the body it is fine, it is beautiful, the moment it enter yours mind, it becomes a perversion, it has no business with your mind, it is something to do with your body, if it is in the body it will just fall into its natural place where it belongs

Love Relationship Man woman Body

The mind is like a puzzle with too many pieces missing. Trying to make sense out of it makes no sense

Philosophy Wisdom

You can use this mind as a ladder to the Divine, or you can use it to trap yourself into this little body and feel like a refugee on this planet

Spirituality Body

When a man completely relinquishes all desires of the mind and is entirely contented in the self, by the self, he is then considered to be settled in wisdom

Desire Wisdom Yoga Bhagavad gita

Free from expectations and the sense of ownership, with mind and intellect fully controlled, they incur no sin, even though performing actions by one's body.

Expectation Control Body Bhagavad gita

The yogis who have conquered the mind rise above the dualities of cold and heat, joy and sorrow, honor and dishonor. Such yogis remain tranquil and ever fully established in the Supreme Self

Joy Bhagavad gita

Completely renouncing all desires arising from material thoughts, one should restrain the senses with the mind from all sides

Desire Thought Bhagavad gita

Whenever and wherever the restless and unsteady mind wanders, one should bring it back and continually focus it on the self

Meditation Yoga Bhagavad gita

Undoubtedly the mind is fickle and unruly; but by yoga practice and by dispassion, the mind may nevertheless be controlled.

Philosophy Wisdom Control Yoga

Those whose intellect is unattached everywhere, who have mastered the mind, and are free from desires by the practice of renunciation, attain the highest perfection of freedom from action

Freedom Action Intelligence Bhagavad gita

God is consciousness. There is essentially nothing in the universe but mind or consciousness.

God Short Consciousness Universe

All successful men and women devote much time to deep concentration. They are able to dive deeply within their minds and to find the pearls of right solutions for the problems that confront them.

Success Problems

The power of God is within you, so when your mind tells you a thing can't be done, say to that thought, "Get out! It can be done". And it will be, if you make up your mind

God Positive Attitude Thought Power

Whatever has its origin in desire is a disturbing element, for desires are like stones pelted into the calm lake of consciousness.

Desire Consciousness

The mind is the power that is creating this body and if the mind is weak, the body becomes weak. Don't grieve or worry about anything

Body

Whenever you want to know something, don't start with data— retire within and concentrate. Seek guidance from within. When the mind is receptive, then bring the data;

To be worthwhile, books should cause you to think. If they do that, you will find that your mind is developing.

Book

Material objects that give pleasure remain outside the mind. They, and the gratification they give, gain entry into the mind only through imagination.

Imagination Pleasure

Retain evenness of mind under all circumstances. In every situation be calmly active and actively calm.

Action

These loads (of past) are too heavy for the mind to carry, so we must restrict the amount of the load. The past is gone. Why continue to carry it in the mind?

Wisdom

Just as a wavy mirror cannot properly reflect the objects in front of it, so a mind whose calmness is distorted by the thoughts of success or failure is unable to reflect the unchangeable Spirit

Analogy Spirit

Moods get their grip on your consciousness when you are in a negative or passive state of mind. The time when your mind is vacant is just the time it can become moody; and when you are moody, the devil comes and wields his influence on you

Evil Consciousness

As soon as you allow a mood to enwrap your mind, your will becomes paralyzed. Moods befog the brain, and hence impair judgment

Judgement

Worry can convince you that it is impossible to do what you want to do. Worrying wastes time and energy. Use your mind instead to try to make some positive effort

Time Effort

Merely ignoring problems won't solve them, but neither will worrying about them. Meditate until you become calm; then put your mind on your problem

Problems Meditation

In meditation, try to go beyond thinking. As long as thoughts enter the mind, you are functioning on the conscious level.

Thought Meditation Consciousness Thinking

Your mind is like a bird that has been locked in a cage for many years. It fears liberty. Yet, freedom is its birthright.

Freedom Fear Analogy

Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.

Love Fear Emotions Body

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Body Secret

Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. With this constructive attitude, you will attain freedom.

Freedom Strength Attitude

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Humor Perspective Reality Humans

Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.

Happiness Life Control The light in the heart

You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.

Inspirational

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Humor

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine

Inspirational Music People

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Religion

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

Humanity

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Humor Universe

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

Faith Heart Belief Acceptance

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

Fear Knowledge

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Analogy

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

Art Thinking

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong."

Happiness Children

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Friends

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

Pain Reality

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Beauty Peace

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

Growth

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Humor

Your mind is going on with uncontrollable endless thoughts because you are identified with things that you are not. You are identified with too many things and you are trying to stop your mind, it is not going to happen in a million years, it can't happen

Mistake Thought

If you take away your wrong identifications (with things which you are not), then you will see that your mind is just like a mirror, not saying anything, just reflecting, that is how your mind should work.

Meditation

Mind is a fantastic Gift to humanity, but what a horrible thing people have made out of it

Humanity People

Life & death can be handled gracefully. If you remind yourself all the time that, "I am mortal, I'm mortal, I'm mortal, I'm mortal", you will see, mind will uncomplicate itself

Death Life

An uncomplicated mind is a great mind, it can do phenomenal things, it will not be a hurdle, it will be a way by itself.

If your mind is pegged down to limited things you are unnecessarily creating a tension in the system. It's like you tied up your boat & you are rowing it hard, it's good exercise, but you're not going anywhere. If you untie the rope, even if you don't row, you will move slowly with the pace of the river

Limitation

Your fears, angers are the products of a mind that is not taken charge of. Your mind is capable of producing joy, your mind is capable of producing fear, anxiety, turmoil, tranquility, agony, ecstasy. It is producing things that you do not want, simply because you do not know how to handle it

Anger Fear Self control Joy

With the addiction, both the physicality and the mentality, both the body and the mind shrinks. The physical capabilities will shrink and the mental capabilities will shrink. So as a human being you are not enhanced, you are destroyed

Body

People are capable of suffering just about anything in the world, If you're not educated, you will suffer that. If you get educated, you suffer that. If you don't find a job, you'll suffer that. If you find a job, you suffer that. If you're not married, you'll suffer that. If you get married, you suffer that. If you don't have children, you suffer that..

Funny Perspective Suffering

the same pleasantness if it hits a higher pitch, we call it pleasure. If your mind becomes pleasant, we call it peacefulness. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it joyfulness. If your emotions become pleasant, we call it Love. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it compassion. If your very life energy if you make it pleasant, we call it ecstasy

Love Emotions Compassion

When I first came to United States, one word I was hearing everywhere is, 'stress management.' I could not understand this because in my mind, we manage things which are precious to us - our family, our wealth, our business and whatever else which is valuable to us. Why would anybody want to manage stress, is something I couldn't get for some time time

Funny Humor

Enlightenment: if you cultivate the system - your body, mind, emotion and energy to its peak possibility then an absolutely wonderful flower blossoms within you. Not something that you did. You just waited with the right kind of conditions and it happened

Emotions Possibility Body

Stress means unpleasantness. Why is your mind creating unpleasantness for you? Your mind is supposed to be working for you not against you. If it is working against you, we haven't figured something about this mind. Something very fundamental we have misunderstood about the nature of the mind, how it functions and what we can do about it

Stress isn't because of the nature of your work, you go & ask a Peon, he is stressful. You ask the Prime Minister, he is stressful. In between everybody is stressful. So which job is not stressful? It is not the job which is stressful; it is you who is stressful. Job is never stressful, It is just that your mind is not taking instructions from you

Work

Meditation is not something you do, if you handle the body, the mind, emotions and energy properly you become meditative, if you try to become meditative you go crazy

Meditation

The only and only reason why the mind is in a state of compulsive action instead of being in a conscious state of action is identification with false things, The moment you get identified with something that you are not, you cannot stop the mind.

The moment you make this mistake that you identify yourself with things that you are not, you cannot stop the mind. You will be in a constant state of mental diarrhea, endlessly it will go on because you've eaten bad food. If you want the diarrhea to stop, you don't need a wine cork, you just stop eating bad food

Mistake

Everybody wants a solution. Solutions will not come without realizing the nature of the problem, nobody wants to look at the mechanics of how the mind functions. Once in a way something may work, that's not the point. But those are accidental happenings. That is not a solution.

Work Problems

Anger is not sitting somewhere and you go hit it, you become angry, when you become angry it is unpleasant, in fact science proves that you actually poison your system by being angry. It is happening only because your mind is not taking instructions from you, you have not done anything to control your faculties under control, life is happening by accident

Anger Life Self control

Prejudice essentially arises in our minds because we are overly identified with something. If you're too identified with being masculine you will have a masculine prejudice; if you're too identified being feminine you will have a feminine prejudice.

only if you're happy your body and mind will function at their best. If they function at their best, depending upon your individual competence and the situations around us, how they play out. Your success is not just about your competence, there's also a situation. How all these things come together - that will lead to a certain level of success

Success Body

You're looking at love as something that comes to you or you yield to the process of love, only because you appreciate a particular quality- a shape of somebody's nose, their mind , thought, emotion, the way they speak, the way they do things. It is based on something that is acceptable to you. If they do something that isn't acceptable to you, love crumbles

Love Wisdom Perspective Acceptance

What's happening in your mind is your bloody dream. Now the problem with life is not that life is not happening the way you want it, even your dream is not happening the way you want it, that's the problem

Dreams Humor Problems Being human

We have made such a distinction between man and woman as if they are two separate species, no other creature on the planet has this kind of problem with their sex, as the humans have. When they have it in their bodies, they have it, but with humans it is on their minds all the time

Religion Problems Being human Man woman

A spider weaves a web for other things to be caught. But if you're that kind of a spider, you build a web in which you're caught, you're a stupid spider, isn't it? Most human beings are in that condition

Being human Analogy

Learning to live with the reality is the most important dimension. If you stop distorting things in your mind and just see everything the way it is, mukti is just one step away. You don't have to do anything. Just time will mature you into another place.

Time Reality Spirituality Liberation

A large percentage of what is happening in the mind is just mental diarrhea - running compulsively, all the time

Your opinions are a wall, not only for others but also for yourself. A closed mind means closed possibilities

Wisdom Possibility Opinion

When you become free from the meanness of the mind, an indiscriminate sense of love and inclusion arises

Love Inclusiveness

A truly intelligent mind is neither influenced by memory nor deluded by imagination.

Imagination Memory Intelligence

Joy is not to be sought outside - it is intrinsic. If you do not mess up your mind, you will naturally be joyful.

Joy

Renunciation is about transcending, not giving up something. Whatever you try to give up will rule your mind.

The mind is an accumulation of the past. Once you transcend the mind, the past has no more power over you

Power Past

If you stop identifying with things that you are not, your mind will become still. That's all it takes to meditate

Philosophy Wisdom Meditation

Your mind is not doing what you say; you do whatever your mind says. That means you are a terrible manager.

In yoga, we always describe the mind as a mirror. A mirror is useful to you only if it is clean and plain

Yoga

When you are a human being, the upper line is gone. But a bird which has been in a cage for a long time will not fly even if you open the door. It has forgotten that there's something called freedom, flying and living.

Freedom Truth Being human

This body and mind are just temporary happenings. Is the awareness of that not inspiration enough to long for something beyond?

Question Spirituality Body

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable. Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of your body and mind.

Freedom Meditation Liberation Limitation

When your mind is full of assumptions, conclusions, and beliefs, it has no penetration, it just repeats past impressions

Belief Past

Your mind, your body will work best, will find fullest expression, only when you are joyful and peaceful, and quiet within yourself

Body

As human intellect becomes active, heavens are collapsing in people's minds. This is the time to move humanity from Religion to Responsibility. People must know the technology of how to be absolutely blissed out by their own nature. Yoga is that technology

Religion Responsibility

This too much talk about 'Peace' is a concoction of the disturbed minds, too many disturbed minds, so they are making up this whole business about peace.

Peace

Even if there is no war, there is no peace in the human mind, there is a war being waged upon yourself within yourself, if that is taken off, there is peace.

Peace War

All the suffering you go through is manufactured in your mind, isn't it so? If you distance yourself from the mind, can there be suffering in you? This is the end of suffering.

Suffering

Only when you remind yourself of your death, you will turn spiritual. If you think of God, fantasies will come in your mind. No spirituality will come

Death God Spirituality

Your body and mind function at their best only when you are in a certain state of peacefulness and joyfulness.

Peace

Education is not about loading a child with information. It is not oriented towards anything. It is just to develop the body and mind to the highest possible capability and allowing the system to rise to its highest possible peak.

Education Possibility Body

If you make your mind listen to you and behave as you want it to behave, no matter what happens to you, no matter what the external situation may be, no matter what the physical condition may be, you shall of course keep your mind happy. You have to acquire this skill

Self control Yoga

If your mind listens to you, you will have no suffering inside. The suffering will only be in your body. We can do something about the suffering in your body with medicine or other means

Suffering Body

Education is not about loading the child's mind with information, but about making the child's mind capable of razor-sharp perception, capable of knowing life in its full depth and dimension

Education Children

The first thing to do when bringing up a child is not to touch your children, not to influence their minds with your distorted minds.

Children

You must liberate your mind, not control it. It is acting crazy because it is entangled in petty things.

Control Liberation

We say 'peace of mind' but really what we want is peace from the mind.

Peace

Peace is just an idea of the mind.

Peace Short Idea

A fit mind is a clear mind.

Short

When it comes to healing the mind, placebo effects are completely valid.

The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.

Meditation

A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.

The senses, mind, and intellect are said to be desire's formidable stronghold; Through them, desire clouds one's knowledge and deludes the embodied soul.

Desire Soul

Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality

Evil Personality Action

It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases

Meditation Self control

Your mind can be compared to a glass of muddy water. If you let the glass stand for a long time, the mud will settle at the bottom of the glass and the water will become fairly clear.

Analogy

Happiness depends to some extent upon external conditions, but chiefly upon mental attitudes. In order to be happy one should have good health, a well-balanced mind, a prosperous life, the right work, a thankful heart, and above all, knowledge of God

God Happiness Health Attitude

Get away from this world; not by flying away to a cave in the Himalayas, but to the cave of your mind, where you are free of the body and of the world

Body World

The soul is only a witness; it does not engage itself in the operations of the human intelligence, mind, and senses

Soul

I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am tireless; I am beyond body, thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.

Non-duality

Never allow your mind to entertain thoughts of illness or limitation; you will see your body change for the better.

Thought Limitation

The mind is the creator of everything. When you know the nature of the mind, you have control of everything, for all is mind.

Creation

Do not accept blindly everything that you read; it should meet the tests of your mind.

Short Reading

Joy, by its very nature - being the blissful consciousness of Spirit in man's soul - lives closest to the mind, and is born in it when the mind is inwardly tuned

Soul Joy Consciousness Spirit

Develop your will power and positive thinking, and you will find your body, mind, and soul working to mold everything in your life according to your will.

Inspirational Life Soul Body

You can conquer your moods, no matter how terrible they seem. Make up your mind that you are not going to be moody anymore; and if a mood comes in spite of your resolve, analyze the cause that brought it on, and do something constructive about it.

When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul

Soul

When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything

Short

To meditate a short time with depth is better than to meditate for long hours with the mind running wild.

Time Meditation Spirituality

Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.

Habit

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Humor Book

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

Soul

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Short Humor Perception

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude...

What the hand does the mind remembers.

Action Learning

If your mind becomes more organized, these unnecessary words, these unnecessary actions, these unnecessary things will disappear. Once they go away, you have a lot of time.

Time Self control

Your mind is working against you, simply because without understanding the fundamentals of what it is.

Understanding

Once this mind starts working for you, once you are blissful by your own nature, there is no more fear of suffering, your mind will become a fantastic instrument of wellbeing

Fear Suffering

Our psychological realities have become bigger than the cosmic reality. That is the big problem. It's time you step out of the cinema that everybody is playing in their own minds

Truth Problems Reality

Thinking is just a recycling of data that you have gathered in the past.

Short One liners Thinking Past

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds

Short Self control Liberation Understanding

External circumstances can only cause you physical pain. Suffering is created in your mind.

Short Pain Suffering

Fear, anger, misery, frustration, depression and despair are all products of a mind that you have not taken charge of.

Anger Fear

Only those who keep the garbage of their minds aside are truly capable of love and compassion.

Love Judgement Acceptance Compassion

If you cannot bring harmony to your own mind, how can you bring harmony to the world?

Short Truth Question World

Wrong sense of intelligence has entered people's minds, they think if they make a problem out of every solution they're intelligent, no no, if you find solutions for every problem- that is intelligence

Funny Problems Sarcasm Intelligence

Control means to confine something within certain limits. Don't control your mind - liberate it

Short Control Liberation

The problem is not with life. The problem is you have not taken charge of your mind

Life Short Problems

When you handle body, breath, mind and your being consciously - that is yoga

Short Yoga Body

'I am stressed out' means your mind is in a state of psychological friction within yourself

Short

Faith can move mountains, but it freezes your mind

Faith Short

For every thought you generate, your chemistry changes. You are a chemical soup & how you stir it is what you become

Thought

One who is entangled in the physical & material can never know the face of the Divine, nor will Divine ever know him

Nothing in existence is ever repeated - no two blades of grass are the same. Everything is fresh and unique - only the mind is in constant repetition

Existence

Sadhana means using your body and your mind not as a barrier in your life but as a bridge

Short Body

A busy mind accelerates the passage of subjective time

Short Time

You can have the mind or you can have the moment

Peace Philosophy Short Moment

A busy mind accelerates the perceived passage of time. Buy more time by cultivating peace of mind

Peace Time

The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.

Happiness

You cannot quiet the mind, you can only watch it.

Short Meditation

Good judgment is the product of a calm and curious mind, reasoning without motivation and attachment.

Judgement

The mind gives up before the body.

Short Body

The great viruses of our time spread through minds, not through bodies.

Short

The quality of your mind is the quality of your life.

Move the body, rest the mind.

Short Body

Earn with your mind, not with your time.

Short Time

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind

Short Meditation

Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind.

Body

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.

Love Relationship Body

The strong and turbulent senses can forcibly seize the mind even of a person with a high degree of enlightenment and self-control.

Desire Self control Bhagavad gita

The senses are superior to the gross body, and superior to the senses is the mind. Beyond the mind is the intellect, and even beyond the intellect is the soul.

Soul Body Bhagavad gita

The mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form.

Thought

Self-realization is the knowing—in body, mind, and soul—that we are one with the omnipresence of God

God Soul Self realization Body

The practice of Kriya is far more purely blissful than the greatest enjoyment that any of our five senses or the mind can ever afford us.

No matter which way you turn a compass, its needle points to the north. So it is with the true yogi. Immersed he may be in many activities, but his mind is always on the Lord

God

No matter what you do, God should be constantly in your mind.

God Short

Cultivate emotional poise. To overcome restlessness, start out with a firm determination that you will do each piece of work in its turn without unnecessary fret or fuss, without burdening your mind with useless queries

Emotions

All affirmations, in order to reach the superconsciousness, must be free from uncertainties and doubts. Attention and faith are lights that lead even imperfectly understood affirmations to the subconscious and superconscious minds

Faith

Save the heart from overwork; fear and anger overtax it. Give rest to the heart by the Self-Realization method, and cultivate a peaceful attitude of mind.

Anger Heart Fear Self realization

Loyalty and love between husband and wife gradually free the mind from limitation to the sex plane and uplift it to the plane of divine love

Love Limitation

Awaken the innate fortitude of the mind by affirming: "No matter what experiences come, I am always happy. My experiences cannot touch me."

Experience

Awareness is all mind, just as it is in dreams. This is not difficult to picture. In death one merely sloughs off his gross physical body, which is only a lower form of mind and the cause of all manner of troubles for the soul.

Death Soul Body

The little mind of the little man attached to little things cannot possibly identify itself with the universal consciousness of God.

God Consciousness Man

You should feast regularly on the society of joyful minds. Every day you should associate, if only for a little while, with joy-instilled persons--those who meditate and feel the joy of God as a reality

Society Joy

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

Short Women Feeling

My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.

Short

Obey God's laws of hygiene. The hygiene of keeping the mind pure is superior to physical hygiene

God

Medicine in itself has not that power of healing possessed by the mind if one knows how to use that mental power.

The joy of God is boundless, unceasing, all the time new. Body, mind, nothing can disturb you when you are in that consciousness — such is the grace and glory of the Lord

God Joy Body

By controlling your mind you can experience the truth that this universe is a delusion.

Short Experience Control Universe

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

Imagination Love Writing

Do away with the delusion of body consciousness, and the concomitant demands of body and mind for "unnecessary necessities."

Body

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

Short Humor

I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?

Thought

I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

This mind, or consciousness, is the supreme force that governs all voluntary and involuntary activities of this bodily factory with its multifarious outputs.

Consciousness Body

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