The Mind Is Like A Monkey Quotes

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

#2. 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

#3. I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. McMurphy tied a chunk of meat to each end of a four-foot string, tossed it into the air, and sent two squawking birds wheeling off, Till death do them part.

Ken Kesey

#5. Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!

Erma Bombeck

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

Sathya Sai Baba

#7. Passion is the gasoline of social media,

Jay Baer

#8. 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

#9. Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

Julie Orringer

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

Susanne Bier