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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