W Quotes
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“When the mind is most empty
It is most full.”
Source: Granite Lady: Poems
“When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.”
“When the mind is not spoilt, the speech is not spoilt, the conduct is not spoilt, that is absolute humility [param vinaya].”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“When the mind is one piece, there will be peace of mind.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“When the mind is one piece,
there will be peace of mind.
When the earth is one piece,
there will be peace on earth.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“When the mind is opening to that unbounded pure awareness, the field of pure intelligence, simultaneously the body is losing stresses and strains, and thereby the clouds that were hindering the use of inner full creative intelligence in action, they begin to wither away.”
“When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.”
Source: A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty
“When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.”
“When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti
“When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.”
“When the mind is silent like a lake the lotus blossoms.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“When the mind is silent, you can listen to your heart and remember that everything is Love and that you are that Love.”
Source: We are human angels
“When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done.”
“When the mind is still it allows you to step back and let ego thoughts pass-through.”
Source: Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousness
“When the mind is still, the world falls into place; when it is restless, all falls apart.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.”
“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”
“When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.”
Source: Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
“When the mind is totally still, there's only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, "Oh my God! I'm clear! I love this!"”
“When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.”
“When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving.”
“When the mind is without borders, the world will be without borders.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“When the mind loses control, you are qualified to be called crazy.”
“When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.”
Source: Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World
“When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“When the mind no longer sees itself as a body, forever in bondage to the body, the mind can be free and at peace even when we are physically sick.”
“When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)
“When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious with wisdom, strength, and holiness...Denial of evil is a word of Truth.”
“When the mind prays,
it moves rocks.
When the heart prays,
it moves hills.
When the soul prays,
it moves mountains.
When the mind sees,
it moves pebbles.
When the heart believes,
it moves cliffs.
When the soul conceives,
it moves ridges.
When thoughts rise,
they move stones.
When desires ascend,
they move walls.
When experiences grow,
they move towers.
When hope increases,
it moves minds.
When faith increases,
it moves hearts.
When love increases,
it moves souls.”
“When the mind remains the ally of our heart, and the gut is the brain's brother-at-arms, we can tackle the challenging situations, be inspirational appeasers, and stay honest to a fault. If we want to satisfy our quest for the 'real moment,' we must be honest with ourselves and honest to the others and ready to reconcile all intricate contentions. ("Quest for the real moment")”
“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in the first place. And this original incarnation of the human mind upon the death of the second hand existence, delivers the world the ultimate bodily manifestation of morality absolute and the liberty it encompasses.”
Source: Morality Absolute
“When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.”
“When the mind shines, the heart is happy.
When the heart grows, the soul is happy.
When the soul flourishes, the body is happy.
When the body thrives, the individual is happy.
When the individual prospers, the world is happy.
When the world advances, even the sun is happy.
When the sun shines, plants are happy.
When plants grow, animals are happy.
When animals flourish, man is happy.
When man thrives, God is happy.
When God smiles, the universe is happy.
When the universe prospers, all is happy.”
“When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.”
Source: The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development
“When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within.”
“When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.”
Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way
“When the mind's an empty room
The clear days come.”
Source: New Collected Poems
“When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.”
“When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.”
“When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.”
“When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.”
“When the minds of men slip from realities to fantasies without thinking of the future consequences, then we must ponder. When the hearts of men are entangled with what though might seem great but yet, specious ambitions without pondering over the resulting footprints, then we ought to take precautions. When the hands of men unwittingly and for the sake of self-gratification find the right weapons and dexterity for the wrong purpose, then massacre and cruelties leave indelible footprints of sorrow and bitterness in the hearts of men. We shall always look back to the footprints of yesterday to say had we know if we don’t take a critical look at today’s footsteps. There is always an alternative that is better than good”
“When the miracles we pray for begin to manifest, we must not forget the source of those miracles.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“When the mischief is done the door is shut.”
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
“When the mistakes fall disproportionately on one side, it is no respect for the notion of truth to pretend that everything is even.”
Source: Post-Truth
“When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.”
“When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.”
“When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.”
Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.”
Source: The 5th Wave