A little thinking may incline the mind toward atheism, but greatness of study brings the mind back again to God.

~ Francis Bacon

Mind can know only that which is of the same nature as itself, namely, thought.

~ Paul Brunton

It is all the mind can do – discover the unreal
as unreal. The problem is only mental. Abandon
false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true
ideas. There aren't any.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

O seeker,
These thoughts have such power over you.
From nothing you become sad.
From nothing you become happy.

You are burning in the flames
but I will not let you out
until you are fully baked,
fully wise and fully yourself.

~ Rumi

Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by
making Mind the object of our attention, not only does
the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of
its own accord but its steady unchanging character
itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing
thoughts.

~ Paul Brunton

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We should come to know that there is more reality and sacredness in a blade of grass than in all of our thoughts and ideas about reality.

~ Adyashanti

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

~ Rumi

The no-mind state is not the vacancy of idiocy
but the most supremely alert intelligence,
undistracted by extraneous thought.

~ Ramesh Balsekar

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ayidya or ignorance.

~ Swami Sivananda

A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach.

~ Krishnamurti

Cleanse the dark mirror of the mind.
~ Ko Hung

Thinking is only a small aspect of
consciousness. Thought cannot exist
without consciousness, but consciousness
does not need thought.

~ Eckhart Tolle