It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.
Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.
The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.
It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.
Play the picture in your mind - focus on the end result.
When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.
The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.
My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.
Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.
I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20′s and 30′s. . . I had other things on my mind. . . the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.
True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.
I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.
The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.