#mind

Only the educated are free.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions.

When any one provokes you, know that it is your own opinion which has provoked you.

In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and what you give to the body you soon lose, but what you give to the soul remains forever.

For habit is first weakened and then entirely destroyed.

The condition and characteristic of a vulgar person is that he never looks for either help or harm from himself, but only from externals.

In one word, he keeps watch over himself as over an enemy and an intriguer.

As you take care not to step upon a nail, or turn your foot; so likewise take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind.

When a raven croaks in an inauspicious manner, let not the impression carry you away, but immediately distinguish in your mind and say: 'None of these omens is for me; but either for my body, or my property, or my reputation, or my children.'

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness?

We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

What we do not make conscious emerges in our lives as destiny.

Wisdom begins with self-discipline; an undisciplined mind is blown about by every passing wind of appetite.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The soul never thinks without an image.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

Consciousness does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.

Every thought is part of a personal consciousness, always changing, sensibly continuous, and interested in some parts of its object to the exclusion of others.

Attention is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought.

Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence.

Our minds are not passive mirrors; they carve out reality according to our human purposes.

We notice only what we have names for, and pass by the rest unseen.

Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.