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Mind Quotes by Ajahn Chah
- Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If…
- Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
- Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and…
- Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch…
- A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well,…
- Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.…
- Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out…
- The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is…
- Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw…
- The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of…
- To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has…
- We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer…
- Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
- The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he…
- Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It…
- The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
- Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still, like a clear forest pool.
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle