Raymond Holliwell Quotes

A thought is a hard thing to control.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.

If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

Meditation can be like a battle with yourself, your thoughts, your body.

I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It’s our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I’m on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.

I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

The next time you have a thought... let it go.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.

You won’t have to watch what you say if you watch what you think.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.