mind

The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Art speaks to the soul, not the mind.

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.

In calmness of mind is greatness.

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

I finally stop feeding my mind with toxic thoughts and started nurturing my heart and soul with love instead.

Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that,and why I don__ want to look like this and be like thatbut still here I am and if this is the body I__e been given I__ sure as hell gonna make it work.

Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves.

We can burst the bonds which chain us,Which cold human hands have wrought,And where none shall dare restrain usWe can meet again, in thought.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Thoughtful minds grow, from the sharpened awareness of those who have lived life; through love, curiosity and tragedy.

When the positive mind takes the lead, the legs are safe to follow without any shaking!

It is to be recognized that the negative emotions and the guilt that comes with it is not a part of the Consciousness, it only belongs to the mind!

No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.