Tag:  Influence

• Everything we see, every thought we have, shapes our mind; whatever you think now, whatever you have thought in the past and whatever you are going to think in the future, it all shapes the mind. March 06, 2010

  Everywhere there is a compelling environmental influence. Newspapers tell us what to think, and there are so many five, ten or fifteen-year plans. Then there are these specialists at the economic, ...

• The mind is never free, pliable, for it is always anchored; it moves within the radius, narrow or wide, of its own centre. March 13, 2010

  The daily pattern of life was repeating itself around the only water tap in the village; the water was running slowly, and a group of women were awaiting their turn. Three of them were noisily and ...

• Life is a battle of ideas, a battle of influences, and your mind is the field of the battle. March 24, 2010

  Why are we influenced? In politics, as you know, it is the job of the politician to influence us; and every book, every teacher, every guru - the more powerful, the more eloquent the better we lik...

• I must change because I know I am dull, stupid, envious, anxious, fearful, and every pleasure is vanishing, and I want to change so radically, so totally, that my mind is new. August 02, 2010

  I see I must change because I know I am dull, stupid, envious, anxious, fearful, and every pleasure is vanishing, and I want to change so radically, so totally, that my mind is new. If that is your...

• Intelligence is necessary to be supremely happy and to awaken that intelligence, the mind must be free of environment. June 13, 2011

  One is unhappy because there is no intelligence, which is understanding. When you understand a thing you are no longer in conflict, you are no longer bound by that which has been imposed on you by ...

• When we say we seek out or cultivate a new value, it is but the overcoming of that in which the mind is already caught up, which is its opposite. October 12, 2011

  When we say we seek out or cultivate a new value, it is but the overcoming of that in which the mind is already caught up, which is its opposite. This choice is based on attraction to one or fear o...