Aleister Crowley Quotes

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

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

Yoga is the cessation of mind.

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

Meditation stops the sound-loving mind.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.

The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.

Every time I play darts I try to keep my poker face on and stay focused until that last dart has gone in.

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

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it.

Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your mind a blank all at once. So in the beginning try to prevent evil or idle thoughts by occupying your mind with the analysis of your own faults, or the contemplation of the Perfect Ones.