Dan Millman Quotes

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

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.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?

Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

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

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.

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

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

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.