To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.
If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.
So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.
In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.
Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.
After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.
A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.
I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.
If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.
Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.
Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles, instruments and applications. Method is essential if you would get through your work easily and with economy of time.
Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn’t say she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart was not constantly as heavy. Only when she thought about him. But she knew that in time, she’d survive it. She had done it before and would again. Eventually the heart repairs.
You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"
Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality. . . is conscious and alert. . . The lower personality is a. . . perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.
Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind-- More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.