simplyknowledge | Quotations

Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.

-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 116-18"

Appreciate fully what you are eating, enjoy it fully, breathing and smelling the aroma to add to the taste, chewing slowly and well, to taste more and to digest better. Discover the subtleties of taste. Gently keep bringing the wandering mind back to tasting fully what you’re eating. Feel the difference! Give thanks for the chance to be able to enjoy what you eat.

-Anonymous "Kalari Kovilakom"

The root of complex gets strengthened by competitive teachings. Nothing in this world can be more foolish than comparing two things or two individuals.

-Deep Trivedi

The worthy person is grateful and mindful of benefits done to him. This gratitude, this mindfulness, is congenial to the best people.

-Scriptures "Anguttara Nikaya"

It is the Path of the Good Mind which Thou hast manifested to me, O Ahura! Whereby the welldoers, in accordance with the teaching of the Spiritual Guides, acting in harmony with Truth alone, Shall pass onward to the assigned reward of which Thou art the bestower, O Mazda! This precious reward of Thine, O Mazda, Thou givest by way of the Good Mind, Thou givest to those who perform actions through knowledge and pure thought; who attempt for the progress and development of the world; fulfil God’s desire and try for the progress of God’s Will through truth and righteousness.

-Scriptures "Yasna 34, Verse 13-14"

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

-Winston S. Churchill "Winston Churchill"

The science of mind is completely contrary to the knowledge of the brain. At the level of mind, as we regret doing the wrong deed, we repeatedly commit the same act. Hence, at the level of mind, it is advisable to understand, not repent.

-Deep Trivedi

The best state of mind is balanced by two extremes. But we, driven by brain, try to embrace one and discard the other. It is this discrimanatory practice that has brought all our good - bad, sin - virtue into existence.

-Deep Trivedi

Direct the mind resolutely towards God, restraining the senses in their various seats, and looking on the state of the body as a matter of indifference. Realise your oneness with God, remaining continually intent on identifying with its nature…for what use is there in other, empty things?

-Adi Shankara "Adi Shankaracharya"

Your mind functions like a computer. It is only you, who has the authority to enter or delete the data from it. But giving this right to others, you have corrupted the computer of your mind.

-Deep Trivedi