Quotes About Monkey Mind

#1. In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

Robert Barron

#2. Monkey mind is actually a Buddhist term that refers to a mind that is restless, agitated, confused, or that is hard to control.

George Mumford

#3. Learn to express your creativity... Your monkey-mind will hate it; but your soul will dance in celebration.

Andrew Hyde

#4. My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.

Michael Franti

#5. The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

Lee Kuan Yew

#6. Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In fact, while I was trying to read soul-nourishing things all I could think about was shopping and jellybeans. Points to the monkey mind.

Anna White

#7. I find, however, it's a much more freeing way to live. It certainly beats walking around with the "Don't you know who I think I am?" voice in your head. I find that only leads me down dark monkey-mind paths and patterns of behavior that benefits no one.

Patrick Fabian

#8. This is the monkey mind of which Zen speaks: the mind that worries, doubts, frets about the past, makes lists, all the time chattering like a monkey.

Patricia Monaghan

#9. I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind'
the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

Boris Vallejo

#11. Thanks," Toby said. "And if Wesley breaks your heart, I promise to ... well, I would say I'd kick his ass, but we both
know that's physically impossible." He frowned down at his skinny arms. "So I'll write him a strongly worded letter.

Kody Keplinger

#12. This is why therapists go to such lengths to urge their anxious patients away from intellectualization: The first step toward peace is disarmament.

Daniel Smith

#13. in the heart's rain
in the eye's fog
in the winter's smoky snow
in whirling snow
in storms
wind which wants to tear my coat off
legends stories
the blood red dawn of the mind
the warm spring between your thighs
the only haven

Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

#14. Wes Clark put forward a middle class tax plan, but it only helps a quarter of middle class families, none without minor children at home, .. And mine helps 98 percent of the middle class.

Joe Lieberman

#15. This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.

Graham Greene

#16. It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

Bob Graham

#17. Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time ... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the mind dance. Make it dance on the stage of mantra. For that, mediate and repeat mantra.

Swami Muktananda

#18. Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.

Mario Diaz-Balart

#19. I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

Nina George

#21. The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to branch through a forest, says the Sutra.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#22. (That was when the sprint on vampirism had been proposed and unanimously actioned as an emergency spike.)

Charles Stross

#23. Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.

Sathya Sai Baba

#24. Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

A.H. Almaas

#25. The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

Dani Shapiro

#26. The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.

Rolf Potts

#27. the problem of my winded panting by holding my

K.C. Dyer

#28. But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?

Charles Darwin

#29. The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

Jean-Yves Leloup