Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.
I think more like a quantum Buddhist, in that there is a universal proto-conscious mind which we access, and can influence us. But it actually exists at the funda-mental level of the universe, at the Planck scale.
Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
He [the Lord] will always hear your prayers and will invariably answer them. However, His answers will seldom come while you are on your knees praying, even when you may plead for an immediate response. Rather, He will prompt you in quiet moments when the Spirit can most effectively touch your mind and heart. Hence, you should find periods of quiet time to recognize when you are being instructed and strengthened.
I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard, never get muddled. They are able to comprehend suffering, and ultimately will understand Dharma. Then, they will understand the books they read.
Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.
By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.
Through meditation, you can calm the mind and develop what is important to you.
Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.
