#Mind Control Quotes

“Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.”

“If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.”

“Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.”

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

“Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.”

“The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.”

“Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.”

“If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.”

“The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.”

“Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.”

“You either control your mind or it controls you.”

“Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.”

“It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.”