I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.

Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.

Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

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

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

Because of restless breath, the mind cannot remain steady at any fixed point.

Direct your mind to think of nothing but your soul, and then concentrate on each exhalation and inhalation.

The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.

You can bathe the body, but the mind is also impure. With what water can you bathe the mind? Chanting God’s name is the water to use for cleaning the mind.

Only the free mind knows what Love is.