Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

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

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

Conquer your mind and conquer the world.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.

I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.