“By its very nature, a writer’s mind is a monkey mind — and meditation, alas, kills the monkey.” — Mara Altman Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot really rest or be still: it is either busy, or non-existent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We can realize, not that our mind is wandering, but that it was.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“2. I’m just caging my monkey mind on paper so I can get on with my fucking day.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“We invite mindfulness when the doing is, or is at least treated as, the desired result.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“monkey mind, where your mind jumps from one thought to another, just like a monkey jumping from one branch to another.” — Sarah Rowland Copy Share Image
Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“We are happy by nature, and our happiness is interrupted by thoughts.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Shut up, she tells her monkey mind. Please shut up, you picker of nits, presser of bruises, counter of losses, fearer of… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
“The monkey mind is constantly generating thoughts, which may appear as images, sounds, fragments, judgments, or memories. Sometimes, these thoughts pass through… — Carmel Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Some people are not really good listeners. They are merely good at keeping quiet for a long time, while someone is talking… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A monkey's mind is curious. So we can treasure that; as we are curious too… Yet meanwhile by simply releasing all attachment… — Leland Lewis Copy Share Image
“Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“in the heart’s rain in the eye’s fog in the winter’s smoky snow in whirling snow in storms wind which wants to… — Nils-Aslak Valkeapää Copy Share Image
The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
“But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“After giving it some thought, I've decided to name my monkey mind Ricky Bobby. I was thinking about Latin names like Javier,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“If we can unify the apparent duality between the great uncontrollable energy and the natural wisdom of our monkey mind, if we… — Oeset Drakir Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I was thirty years old before I had an actual thought. Everything up till then was either what Buddhists call “monkey-mind” chatter… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The route of true happiness, the Buddha argued, was to achieve a visceral understanding of impermanence, which would take you off the… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Don't believe your thoughts; they are just neurotransmitters locking into receptor sites, not reality. ... As I studied and practiced more, I… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
“My faith is with technology and with psychedelics. Politics aren't going to take us much further. We're awakening as a planet to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The average person wastes his life. He has a great deal of energy but he wastes it. The life of an average… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“First, contrary to popular belief, Buddhists can actually be very anxious people. That’s often why they become Buddhists in the first place.… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
“Teach him to call it ‘real-life and don’t let him ask what he means by ‘real’. (...) Never having been human (...)… — Clive Staples Lewis Copy Share Image
“Only about two percent of one percent of our thoughts deserve to be taken seriously.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Meditation produces, in an awake man, calmness that rivals that of a sleeping boy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We cannot really experience something while we are thinking, not even the act of thinking.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
