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Mind Quotes by Rajneesh
- Mind only thinks, meditation lives.
- Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.
- It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle…
- First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do…
- The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that dream…
- Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.
- Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.
- Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing…
- The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it…
- You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing -…
- If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of…
- The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of…
- Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go…
- Laughter is spiritual health. And laughter is very unburdening. While you laugh, you can put your mind aside very easily. For a man who cannot…
- Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness. And second: follow…
- Life is not static. If life were static there would be no need for meditation. The mind would do. Then you could think, and whenever,…
- Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then…
- The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave,…
- Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.
- Our mind is a machine, it is not a mystery. And the mind always wants to know the how, the why. And because of this…
- Take a good look at your mind. Examine it closely. The first thing you will come to know is that the mind has become the…
- Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am I…
- Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but in life he…
- Mind is memory, not intelligence.
- This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind…
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