Echoes

When breath is unsteady, the mind is unsteady. When breath is steady, the mind is steady. The yogi should therefore restrain the breath.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.

Fixity of attention depends on slow breathing; quick or uneven breaths are an inevitable accompaniment of harmful emotional states — fear, lust, anger.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The best fighter is never angry.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

The stomach is not to be loaded, for there is nothing so hostile to thought as a full belly.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

What I urge is that you so learn to control the machinery as to live with 'day-tight compartments' as the most certain way to ensure safety on the voyage. Touch a button and hear, at every level of your life, the iron doors shutting out the dead yesterdays and the unborn to-morrows.

As long as a person exercises, exerts himself greatly, does not eat to the point of being overly full, and keeps his bowels soft, illness will not come upon him and his strength will increase.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that "All abilities come from one mind" sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.