simplyknowledge | Quotations

Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.

-Scriptures "Astrid Alauda"

All that your mind absorbs from the external world will prove to be a deterrent, meaning it will push you back in life. Whatever your mind brings forth from within, will only make you grow in life.

-Deep Trivedi

Win over the ill-natured man by goodness…Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.

-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 116-18"

Only the person who knows how to strike a balance of mind can be happy and successful in life. Sin - virtue, good - bad are the teachings which disturb the equilibrium of our mind and unfortunately, these are the teachings which our religious gurus and scriptures are giving us in abundance. As a result, only one among millions is able to be happy and successful and that too, he who escapes their clutches.

-Deep Trivedi

“Make your offering,” said the Master. “As you make it be pleased in mind. Make your mind completely calm and contented. Focus and fill the offering-mind with the giving. From this secure position you can be free from ill will.”

-Sutta Nipata "Sutta Nipata 506"

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. The guru can give you words; he can give you an explanation, the symbols of the mind, but the symbol is not the real, and if you are caught in the symbol, you will never find the way.

-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"

A person whose mind is unattached to sensual pleasures, who discovers the joy of the Self, and whose mind is in union with Brahmn through meditation, enjoys eternal bliss.

-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 5.21"

Good is that which elevates the mind and evil is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities; they have nothing to do with your relationship with the Supreme.

-A Spiritual Leader "Shri Shri Anandamurti"

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"

Other than our 'mind', what is it that we have, which we can call our own? Everything else is gifted by nature and made usable by science. At the same time, if you talk of joy of mind, it lies in "art". But then it is difficult to understand that in this process, where do we feel the need for these 'so-called religions'?

-Deep Trivedi