06 / In their own words
The Quotes Collection
Short lines from the thinkers, teachers and writers in the Reading Room, gathered by theme. Read one slowly and notice what it asks of you.
A small daily practice
Read it twice.
Notice what it asks.
Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.
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207 quotes to read slowly
Learn from everything, see everything, and above all feel everything!
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.
To learn to forget is as necessary and useful as to learn to remember.
For one to govern his thinking, then, is to determine his life.
Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
That which rises in this body as 'I' is the mind.
Disappointment requires adequate planning.
People simply like to have reasons for what they do.
The world without is a reflection of the world within.
Live through deeds of love, and let others live understanding their unique intentions: this is the fundamental principle of free human beings.
How aware you are is how alive you are.
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful.
The ego is not master in its own house.
Sisters and Brothers of America, it fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome.
Never fear to be yourself. If Mental Science does not teach you to be yourself it teaches you nothing.
One of the most enduring lessons of social psychology is that behavior change often precedes changes in attitudes and feelings.
Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.
In a world of individuals, comparison is a senseless activity.
My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.
He who controls his attention controls his mind, and in controlling his mind controls himself.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.
In this perspective, feelings are the sensors for the match or lack thereof between nature and circumstance.
Remember, there are multiple great lives within you.
Life design is a journey; let go of the end goal and focus on the process and see what happens next.
When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100 percent of the time.
Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking.
Mind is creative, and conditions, environment and all experiences in life are the result of our habitual or predominant mental attitude.
Non-judgment creates silence in your mind.
Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
When the will and the imagination are in conflict, it is always the imagination which wins.
You are greater than any words you ever used.
Whatever you give your attention to, is the thing that governs your life.
The world of thought is the world of our individuality: it is the part of us that knows.
Your mood is showing you a good representation of what you are inviting into your experience.
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
In your effort to possess, you will discover that the thing you most need is to consistently "Be" your best self.
Children should above all be taught self-reliance, love for all men, altruism, mutual charity, and more than anything else, to think and reason for themselves.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
You take your beliefs about reality as truth, and often do not question them.
Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
The greatest habit we must break is the habit of being ourselves.
None of us, not even the most adept practitioners of meditation, is ever only in the present. Nor would we want to be.
Free to read. Yours to explore.