Sister Souljah Quotes

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

Sometimes you don't realise what you've got, because it's right in front of you.

As you walk, you simply walk. Don't go ahead, don't jump here and there. Mind always go ahead or lag behind. Remain with the moment.

If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.

Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The enemy turns out to be the creation of mind. Because when you are just in the moment, doing what you are doing, there is no fear. The fear is when you stand back to think about it. The fear is not in the actions. The fear is in the thought about the actions.

Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

That state of mind - of being beside yourself - is wonderful. As you get older, you're just very aware of a sense of an ending. You're grateful for every day.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.