Explore · 30 sayings

Mind & Concentration

“All knowledge depends upon calmness of mind.”
Volume 7 · Sunday, July 28 →
“What we think we tend to become.”
Volume 8 · Six Lessons on Raja-Yoga: I →
“Be the witness. Learn never to react.”
Volume 8 · Jnana and Karma →
“It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.”
Volume 1 · Karma in its Effect on Character →
“If you have to think, think good thoughts, great thoughts.”
Volume 8 · Is Vedanta the Future Religion? →
“Thought is all important, for “what we think we become”.”
Volume 8 · Discourses on Jnana-Yoga: VI →
“The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.”
Volume 7 · Saturday, July 20 →
“The powers of the mind are like rays of light dissipated; when they are concentrated, they illumine.”
Volume 1 · Introductory →
“Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.”
Volume 5 · The East and The West →
“Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.”
Volume 9 · The Religion of India →
“Thoughts can be guided and controlled.”
Volume 1 · The Soul and God →
“The whole secret of knowledge is concentration.”
Volume 9 · The Religion of India →
“By non-attachment and practice, meditation is perfected.”
Volume 1 · Appendix →
“The senses drag the human soul out.”
Volume 2 · Maya and Freedom →
“In Yoga, perception and realisation are one.”
Volume 7 · Wednesday, July 17 →
“Yoga is controlling the senses, will and mind.”
Volume 6 · Concentration →
“Whatever you dream and think of, you create.”
Volume 8 · Is Vedanta the Future Religion? →
“Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.”
Volume 7 · Wednesday, June 26 →
“Whom anger chains, can ever pass through Maya's gates.”
Volume 4 · The Song of The Sannyasin →
“Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.”
Volume 8 · Six Lessons on Raja-Yoga: I →
“Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.”
Volume 7 · Tuesday, July 23 →
“Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart.”
Volume 9 · The Mundaka Upanishad →
“We are the heirs of good and evil thought.”
Volume 6 · Lessons on Raja-Yoga →
“If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished.”
The Life of Swami Vivekananda · In Historic Rajputana →
“One must think of Om, and of its meaning too.”
Volume 1 · Concentration: Its spiritual uses →
“Control the organs of the senses and control the mind.”
Volume 7 · Saturday, August 3 →
“By dint of hard work, thoughts may be silenced altogether.”
Volume 1 · The Soul and God →
“Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly.”
Volume 1 · Krishna →
“High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.”
Volume 6 · Concentration and Breathing →
“The great quality of Bhakti is that it cleanses the mind.”
Volume 3 · Bhakti →