A master used to repeatedly emphasize on right thinking as a means to changing one’s destiny. One student could not see the point and asked him to elucidate.
The master said:
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
— Z-Meditation
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.
— Tony Robbins
Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed.
— A Course in Miracles
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
— Marianne Williamson
You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
— Foundation for Inner Peace
A disciple asked his teacher, “Sir, please tell me how I can realize the Self.”
The teacher took the disciple to a lake and both of them got into the water. Suddenly, the teacher pressed the disciple’s head under the water. After a few moments, he released him and asked him,”How did you feel?” The disciple said, “Oh! I thought I would die. I was panting for breath.”
The teacher then said, “When you will have the same longing for the Self, you will surely realize.”
— Unknown
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There was once a young prince who, having reached the age of majority, left home to live on a grand estate given to him by his father. He was told that if he ever needed help he was to put a light in the uppermost tower window, and his father would send a special horse and carriage to carry him to safety.
However, his father also warned him that an evil wizard, an enemy of the kingdom, lived not too far from his new home. The prince was told to be wary when setting his signal, for this wizard would also see this light and might himself send his own horse and carriage to carry the prince off to who knows what kind of danger.
Of course, this frightened the young ruler-to-be. After all, how would he be able to tell the difference? His father assured him there was a foolproof measure. Each time, before entering the rescue carriage, he was to closely examine the horse pulling it. A light-colored horse would always take him to safety, but a dark horse would always take him to danger.
As one might imagine, many of the ordeals that come with the ruling life befell the prince, each one causing him to put a light in the window. And for many months, because he was in such a rush to escape his castle when he felt in danger, he failed to heed his father’s warning; time and time again he neglected to examine the horse that came to get him. As a result he often found himself on one painful wild ride after another where, too late, he realized his inattentiveness was causing him as much distress as the condition he was trying to escape.
Eventually, he found the presence of mind – before he would get into the carriage that had come for him – to see if the horse pulling it had been sent by the evil wizard or by his father.
— Unknown
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
— The Buddha
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self. That which arises in this body as ‘I’ is the mind. When the subtle mind emerges through the brain and the senses, the gross names and forms are cognized.
When it remains in the Heart, names and forms disappear. If the mind remains in the Heart, the ‘I’ or the ego which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self, the Real, Eternal ‘I’ alone will shine.
Where there is not the slightest trace of the ego, there is the Self.
— Ajay Kapoor
The greatest discovery you’ll ever make, is the potential of your own mind.
— Jose Silva
