Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

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

When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.

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

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

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

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

I'm God because I have the power to control my mind.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That's the way to go in sports.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.