Amanda Hocking Quotes

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.

Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

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.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

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.

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

I'm God because I have the power to control my mind.

There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.

I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don't need to make up so much drama now.

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

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.