Mind Quotes

Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.

Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind.

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.

Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.

A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being.

Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable.

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.

I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.

If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.

Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.

As you walk, you simply walk. Don't go ahead, don't jump here and there. Mind always go ahead or lag behind. Remain with the moment.

Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within.

Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.

'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?'

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

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

Mind is not your intelligence.

Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.

To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.

And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future.

Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind.

No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.

First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.

Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.