Bodhidharma Quotes

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your thoughts. The kind of person you are comes from the way you think. And it bleeds into the way you feel. And such forth. If the mind is not free, then we won't be free.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

You only have one thing in your mind, and that is your mind; once that's gone, your whole reality is distorted.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?