George William Russell Quotes

There's this idea that, 'All I have at the end of the day is my mind.' That's the only thing you can control. I believe that.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.

Meditation can be like a battle with yourself, your thoughts, your body.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

Every being has flaws; the potential is always there to connect to the light or to darkness.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.