Discusión:Mente
"Deal with your mind firmly, patiently and compassionately, like a parent raising a child. "[1]
"Your mind is your servant and potentially a servant of God under the direction of Knowledge. Honor its strengths and manage it weaknesses. Feed it well and it will be healthy."[1]
"The mind is a magnificent organizer and vehicle of communication. But it must be wisely directed and employed for a real purpose. Having a mind is like flying a plane. The plane is always going off course. You have to keep it directed where you want it to go." [1]
"Be careful not to deny or distance yourself too much from the personal mind since it has a primary and real function in enabling you to be in the world. Knowledge is focused on bigger things like the purpose, guidance and direction of your life. It is depending on your personal mind to be able to determine and handle all the innumerable details of doing this. Example: Knowledge is the captain of your ship and your thoughts are the crew. If the captain, who holds the mission, is not guiding the crew, it will tend to become divided, chaotic and unable to succeed. This is like the personal mind without Knowledge. See the NMG teaching The Ship."[2]
"We are “dogged” by our personal mind and its habits until we learn to manage it wisely and compassionately. We can only do this by establishing over time a position outside of it to be able to observe it and guide it directly."[2]
"Your personal mind is a great vessel, but it is always going off course and needs wise guidance and correction. It is smart in small matters, but not great matters. “In reality, your worldly mind is meant to serve Knowledge, and here its greater strengths, intelligence and capabilities become really utilized, and it is redeemed and given a greater purpose and integration into your life. But before this can happen, there must be a revolution—a spiritual revolution, a revolution against ideas and obligations, against fear, against guilt, against obsession, against grievances. A revolution to free you to find that which is calling to you and which has been waiting for you for so long.” THE ONE BOOK: THE NEW LIFE: The Revolution"[2]
"Long ago when I used to work with people one on one. I would practice letting go all my ideas, recommendations and solutions regarding their problem or need. I would instead become very still, listening for what could be done for that person, if anything. Most of the time with my mind very clear and empty, I would receive the key—I would see it, know it and then find an appropriate way to present it. Often it would have little to do with what that person was telling me or what they thought the source of their difficulty was." [3]
"Give the mind one thing to dedicate itself to. This produces equanimity because when the mind is focused, it becomes still—even when it is working very hard. This gives you freedom from past regrets and from future anxieties. It takes you away from fear and into a concentrated state of mind. It generates activity, observation and many other specific tasks." [4]
"If you think you are your thoughts and your mind, well, you will not be able to comprehend the Mind, the Will and the Presence of God, for the mind is a vehicle of communication in the world."[5]