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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Love peace of mind, love doing the right thing, love living according to divine law
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.
-- Sri Swami Sivananda
Pain is weakness leaving the body. The question isn't how much more can you take, but how much more can you give. Just when you're ready to quit, your mind says push harder. You listen sensing an inner strength that wasn't there before, and suddenly you discover you no longer feel the pain.
To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.
A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.
mind is seen in buddhism as an activity rather than an entity
the great enigma for psychologists and philosophers is the mind
the mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions
While the mind is not the seat of the spiritual nature it is indeed the gateway thereto
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia:
From Spiritual DirectionsThe acme of faith is… immersion of the mind in God.
The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.
The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.
The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.
Read more in the book Ecopsychology
The rigidity of one's religious beliefs diminishes with the presence of faith. Fanatacism is a grasping for order in a mind without peace and without faith.
There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.
"Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrenders of the mind's vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes more free and more open to the light of Truth."
Women twist around everything you say, to test you. They argue with you just to see how much you will fight back. But every women has a method to her maddness and always get what they want. Eventually you will be thanking her, but you will never understand why.
Women twist around everything you say, to test you. They argue with you just to see how much you will fight back. But every women has a method to her maddness and always get what they want. Eventually you will be thanking her, but you will never understand why.
The Earth is like our body, and mankind is our mind; we can't take care of only one if we want to thrive as a civilization.
Opposition is a category of man's mind, not in itself an element of reality.
Learning to free up or liberate one's mind to capture precisely the most essential points in anything is an athletic exercise in which, for the first time, we discover just what the actual cash-value of our "culture" truly is: has our culture contributed to making our minds more acute, clearer, more nimble and elastic? Has it given us a richer vocabulary of essences or concepts to facilitate our rational and moral digestion of issues? Or is our "culture" really no enzymatic culture at all, but merely a scheme of encumbrances, of intellectual and rational impediments that have been compounded out of endless Pavlovian conditionings, by which we came to accept fallacies and equivocations and deceptive connotations and lying rhetoric etc. as if they were the gospel truth? The premier value of reading the ancient thinkers lies in their aristocratic culture's determination to put an absolute premium on the development of acuity, directness, economy or essentiality of characterizations, etc. To be competent as an "aristos" (one committed absolutely to the cultivation of excellence or "arete" in its superlative degree), an individual was expected to keen his insights and judgment as much in the domain of intuition (being sensitive to the subtleties of the evidence, the realities) as in the domain of intellection (mustering the most apt tools of expression to characterize, conceptualize and evaluate these realities). Moderns have only the feeblest grasp of both of these processes.
Be a life long learner, not a life long student. You can't rob the world of your mind.
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously.
Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.
In making a decision, give your heart three votes, your mind two votes, and everyone else one vote.
one will only go as far as theyre willing to.... but hey it's exercise!!
Yatha dipo nivatastho nengate sopama smrta
Yogino yatachittasya yunjato yogamatmanah
Bhagwad Gita 6:19
(As a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, such is the disciplined mind of a Yogi practicing meditation on self).
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Limitation is not the way to make sense of the World.
