Rajneesh Quotes

You either control your mind or it controls you.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.

The more we control our mind, the more our inner peace increases and the happier we become

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

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

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

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

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.

If your mind dislike anything obey it

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the 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!

There is an incredible power & intelligence witin you that is constantly responding to your thoughts and words. As you learn to control your mind by the conscious choice of thoughts, you align yourself with this power. Do not think that your mind is in control. You are in control of your mind. You use your mind. You can stop thinking those old thoughts.

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

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