Jim Rohn Quotes

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Life is but thought.

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

Keep your head on your shoulders - even when you think your head is on your shoulders, sometimes it isn't!

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 workings of the mind. As you understand those workings of the mind a great awareness arises in you, which is not of the mind. That awareness arises in your being, in your soul, in your consciousness.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the thoughts and ideas and images floating in front of the mind's inward eye. You can, in other words, experience your mind, be aware of your mind. And it's very important to experience your mind directly, cleanly, intensely, because only by bringing awareness to the mind can you begin to transcend the mind and be free of its limitations.

We can only learn so much about our minds, because we are using our minds to do so.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.