C. S. Lewis Quotes

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.

Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.

Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden underneath the mind. This witnessing will reach to your center, and once you have become enlightened, then there is no problem. Then bring the mind in tune with you

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my mind. .. God has a great plan to redeem society. He needs me and wants to use me.

My mind... It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered with.

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.