Leah Remini Quotes

I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.

I intend to make Scientology as accessible to as many people as I can.

It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen our prayers, become stronger people, live more profound lives and secure deeper, more lasting good fortune. If our slightest prayer was answered immediately, we would become lazy and degenerate. And we could not hope to build a life of great dignity and substance.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind.

I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

The world is not so kind, people trap 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.

I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.

I want considerate people to listen to the voice of Aikido. It is not for correcting others; it is for correcting your own mind. This is Aikido. This is the mission of Aikido and should be your mission.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

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

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.