Sit in meditation! But do not think! Look only at your mind! You will see thoughts coming into it! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.

The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worse

Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.

Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

Meditation is the only means to the harmonious development of the body, mind and soul.

Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.

As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind.

Breath and mind are correlated. When your mind is restless, your breath is restless. A restless mind causes pain.

Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

The goal of Yoga is to have an easeful body, a peaceful mind, and a useful life.

[The Buddha] realized that body and mind formed one reality which could not be separated. The peace and comfort of the body were directly related to the peace and comfort of the mind. To abuse the body was to abuse the mind.

Love is the most satisfying way to control the mind…Bhakti makes us single-minded when it awakens our innate spirit of love.

I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.