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When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.
Sep 10, 2025
For you to be free of your thinking mind, that will cost you the way that you've put your self together. It will cost you your patterned self.
Religion stills a thinking mind.
As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can’t experience the state of non-thinking. If we can’t experience non-thinking, we will not understand what our life truly is. Please realize this for yourself! Just sit.
Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.
The more thinking minds, the less sinking world!
The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.
We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.
The world we have created is a product of our thinking.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem.
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates. As soon as we are successful in silencing the restless activity of the thinking mind and give a chance to intuition, the pure all embracing spirit in us will manifest effortlessly.
Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.
Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.
If you think you can - you can!
If you think you can't, you're right.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.