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“Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.”

Mind Littles Skins Regard Blessed Saint Flesh Mastery Deceived Eyelids

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."”

Mind Firsts Persons Spirit Turns Voice Answers Steps Humility Expression Keys Honor Forgiving Gentle Relax Bitterness First Steps Facial Facial Expression

Author:Gary Smalley

“We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.”

Ifs Men Mind Stills Would Be Lasts Remember Lying Sides Christ Powerful Wonder Lord Danger Bears Catholic Arise Features Good Man Deceived Last Day Bad Man Being Deceived Anti Christ

Book:Devotion to the Church

Source: Devotion to the Church

“Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.”

Mind Heart Character Action Desire Knowing Psychology Habit Integrity Mindset Good Character Good Habits

Book:Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Source: Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

“The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.”

Mind Littles Little Minds

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“When God has access to our heart, mind, and soul through years of fellowship and worship, He allows us to see more of His activity and to be more involved in His miraculous work.”

Years Mind Heart Soul God Christian Involved Activity Worship Access Miraculous Fellowship Through The Years Heart Mind And Soul

Book:Discovering God's Daily Agenda

Source: Discovering God's Daily Agenda

“More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.”

Men Life Mind Suffering Order Found Wise Rational Insane Reasonable

Author:Derek R. Audette

“I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of man. It is not a property of the universe. Rationality may be a useful tool when it suits our purposes, however, it is merely a measuring stick, calibrated against what we know of the nature of the universe - all of which may or may not be completely inaccurate.”

Knows Men Life Mind May Purpose Universe Too Much Illusion Concepts Tools Property Sticks Devotion Suits Radical Rationality Constructs Measuring

Author:Derek R. Audette

“An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.”

Life Mind Ideas Matter Accepting Acceptance Greatness Absolutes Intellect Small Minds

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence you are the ones who do not respect the liberties and rights of the individual. Those people deserve our contempt, and when you draw them out of the shadows by exercising your civil right to freedom of speech, they will expose themselves for what they truly are.”

People Trying Mind Politics Individual Silence Known Liberty Opinion Rights Exercise Speech Draws Shadow Deserve Silent Contempt Freedom Of Speech Retribution Do Not Fear

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.”

“Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning, a perfect environment without pain and danger, accidents and death and the horrors of this world. Babies won't have to cry. - They'll have everything they need. We'll be able to read their little minds, and we won't have to wonder what they're needing. Just think of all the advantages of rearing children in Heaven. It will be pure pleasure!”

“The more completely you concentrate, the stronger your mind becomes.”

Mind Stronger Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.”

Mind Looks Littles Eye Focus Fronts Objects Flames Concentration Candle Willpower Dots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.”

Thinking Mind Attention Millions Focus Seeing Concentration Waiver

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.”

Mind Use Moving Process Essentials Perception Flow Sight Concentration Dominant Sense Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.”

Mind Mean Universe Listening Enlightenment Planes Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.”

Ifs Mind Energy Causes Quiet Happenings Disappear Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better, and in the doing we're releasing energy that is taking our mind in higher diffuse planes of attention.”

Years Mind Littles Energy Numbers Attention Higher Planes Each Day Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.”

Want Mind Focus One Thing Perception Training Gains Concentration Focus On One Thing Training The Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

Mind May States Order Revolution Equal Superiors State Of Mind Inferiors Rebellious Revolt

Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.”

Mind Advice Praise Blame Careful

Author:Edmund Gosse

“When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.”

People Men Mind Trouble Advice

Author:E. W. Howe

“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.”

Feels Mind Problem Fighting Consciousness Accepting Advice Fields Fellows Strategy Tiny Fists

Book:Flight to Arras

Source: Flight to Arras

“Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.”

Mind Real Fear Habit Disease Tolerance Misfortunes Panic Illumination Bad Habits Poise Real Courage Ventilation

Author:Elie Metchnikoff

“Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.”

Men Mind Strange Attraction Forests

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever.”

Mind Made Stills Forever Sky Calm Visualization Brightness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.”

Ifs Want Mind Children Whole Break Minutes Cry Couple Barriers Cookies Visualization Break Through

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!”

Mind Light Perfect Forever Laughter Karma Visualization Radiant Light Within Bodhisattva Visits You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple.”

Mind Simple Perfect Practice Meditation Empty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will.”

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images.”

Thinking Mind Meditation Negative Wander Usual Replacements

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.”

Trying Mind Comfortable Sitting Negative Shining Meditating Negative Thoughts Eliminating Agitate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.”

Want Mind Stills Desire Overcoming Filled Attraction Frustration Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras and you be much more confused and dissociated than you were prior to your meditation experience.”

People Ifs Mind Meditation Confused Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again.”

Mind Moving Secret Meditation Technique Upset Frustrated Begin Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.”

Mind Practice Meditation Impression Glorious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.”

Ifs Mind Meditation Wander Allowing Empowered Disservice Impurity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your thoughts come and you're trying to stop them, simply say "No". Learn the mantra "No". Every time a thought comes in your mind ... just say no.”

Trying Mind Mantras Just Say No

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.”

Mind Universe Meditation Void Tranquil

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a world of light.”

World Mind Light Moving Emptiness Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.”

Mind Important Powerful Attention Meditation Wander Psychics Very Powerful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.”

Source: Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World

“Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.”

Mind Body Realizing Consciousness Awareness Greatness Absolutes Manifestation Holiness Unimaginable Mind Body

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.”

“Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.”

Thinking World Should Mind Use Earth Values Heaven Easy Difficult Wealth Sun Air Sea Glory Fairs Environmental Pleasant Glorious Sensible Profitable Giver Delighted

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

“Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free, one thing you do not think about: the whole. Beasts have a mind; respect it. Flowers too- look at one. Nature brought forth each petal. There is a mystery that sleeps in metal. Everything feels, and has power over you.”

Thinking Men Feels Mind Looks Soul Whole Sleep One Thing Mystery Flower Environmental Beast Over You Metals Petals Quiver

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.”

Men Mind Soul Matter Environmental Atoms Smallest Linked Cunning Analogies Utterance Duplicate

Book:Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

Source: Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

“The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.”

Mind Night Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Unhappy Remove All Night Enjoyable Monitoring

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.”

Way Mind Mean Energy Simple Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Gains Complicated Buddhist Variety

Author:Frederick Lenz