"When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life."
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"If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease"
"As our own peace of mind grows, so the atmosphere around us becomes more peaceful."
"Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind."
"Happiness can be achieved through training the mind."
"Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it."
"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us."
"The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define."
"It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out."
"Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body"
"An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind."
"When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul"
"After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive."
"Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you."
"A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind."
"every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in."
"If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future."
"To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?"
"The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster."
"This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens."