The mind is a slave of the body. It just repeats what the body says and what the body wants.
Where do you think the mind is? In the average man it is a little in the mind, a little in the heart, but 90 percent in the muscles, in the mouth, and below the waist—on the purely physical level.
Our mind takes the character of that on which it dwells. If the mind thinks of material things all the time, it will become as gross as matter.
The mind is a miserable stenographer who keeps a record of what the senses and the body do. But when you rise above the body, the mind also rises up.
The mind is the sense of otherness.
The mind is nothing but ignorance continually vibrating.
We get ideas and these ideas get frozen into attitudes.
The mind is so hard that an atomic bomb will not make a dent in it, but meditation will.
Despair and discouragement are two of the luxuries in which the mind indulges.
One becomes identified with the states of the mind. We dance to the tune of the mind.
When the mind takes an unhappy turn you say, “I am unhappy.” You are not unhappy; the mind is unhappy.
Against the calm, luminous soul, the mind dances its dance—and we identify with the mind.
When the mind becomes calm, you see deep into everything.
The finite and the Infinite will never shake hands.
The object is to free the mind from the body.
Ride the body and mind; do not let the body and mind ride you.
If you are not the body or the mind, nothing can set a limit to you. The sense of limitation comes only from the body and the mind.
The mind is not a sovereign thing; it is the instrument of the soul.
The natural tendency of the mind is toward God, not toward evil. If we take off what is imposed on the mind, it will fly to Truth.
It is better to evoke the higher mind than to wrestle with the lower mind. How? By dwelling on that which makes the mind higher. Infinite love and dignity are there.
I will make a wild speculation: modern people do not delve into the unconscious in order to understand the mind; they do so because the conscious state has become unbearable.
It is a highly dangerous game to try to probe into your own mind. You must not do it.
“Don’t dig too deeply in the ground lest a cobra come out.”—Bengali saying.
Until you have great control of your mind, don’t study it. Dwell on God.
With the conscious mind alone we can reach the highest, without the use of the unconscious mind.
If you want to commune with God, it is done with the enlargement and expansion of your conscious mind. This very mind becomes superconscious.
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