Stage of Growth: Conquering The Mind.

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Conquering the mind. The place where all thought originates. All emotion is contemplated. All imagination is possible. All memory of identity, is held. 

The purpose of this journal is to document my own journey at this stage of my personal growth. 

With everything that has transpired over these past few years and the road ahead, "Conquering the Mind" is a sentiment that rings all too true.

Across generations from philosophy to martial arts, time and time again for no less peculiar of a reason for my own beginning here this sentiment has struck at the core of countless humans that have walked this earth and have now passed through it.

They have left their written deeds in philosophy, their cultural impacts through stories still written in song, film and play, and their various disciplines in meditation to martial arts. 

And in that claim, they leave us four words in their example: X marks the spot. 

"x", that elusive singular point in consciousness that is nameless and yet has every name we can possibly conceive of, is faceless, and yet holds our most vulnerable one, is nothing and yet reveals the weight of our own potential that must fill it. Not just in realisation for the sake of doing so, as life has shown us that we can acquire only so much to satisfy ourselves. Nor even as an act of knowing oneself at a deeper level, for life has shown us that it is possible to become too full of oneself without much 'knowing'. Nor even for conquering goals in our external reality before us, though its wise to keep them plentiful. But all in all, its because the mind is the seed to all creation and thus the seed to all that can be created by our own minds. Including too then in that creation, the degree of sophistication that is born, grown and tended to in the wielding of our own minds for our own purposes.

Best wishes.

 

“Conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.”
— Guru Nanak

“He who conquers his mind is greater than those who conquer dominions in the war.”
— Swami Sivananda

“For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends.”
— Bhagavad Gita

“Those who conquer their own minds, by Guru’s Grace, conquer the world.”
— Guru Granth Sahib

“The mind is difficult to control and restless; but by practice and by dispassion it may be restrained.”
— Bhagavad Gita

“Conquer the mind slowly and carefully through intelligent means.”
— Swami Sivananda

“You can’t control the fight if you can’t control your mind.”
— Ando Mierzwa

“Conquer your mind and then conquer the entire universe with your spirituality and divine force.”
— Swami Sivananda

“The Yogi who by meditation and Yogic discipline conquers his mind, conquers easily the world of matter.”
— Swami Sivananda

“Even though you have not conquered the battles of the world, you become the world-conqueror when you conquer your mind.”
— Attributed to Swami Chinmayananda

“To conquer mind is more difficult than to conquer the whole world.”
— Swami Abhedananda

“You will conquer the mind if you rest content in the self, undistracted by the concepts.”
— Yoga Vasistha

“The mind is the captain of the army of your bodily and mental senses.”
— Yoga Vasistha

“When the mind is conquered, its turbulent wanderings are stopped.”
— Guru Granth Sahib

“Rare is the one who knows the medicine to conquer the mind.”
— Guru Granth Sahib

“Without conquering his mind, no one can be successful.”
— Guru Granth Sahib

“To conquer the mind is the knowledge of the six Shastras.”
— Guru Granth Sahib

“Without sound reasoning it is impossible to conquer the mind.”
— Annapurna Upanishad

“You should first conquer the mind through Vichara or enquiry of ‘Who am I?’”
— Swami Sivananda

“I have mastery over the mind.”
— Uppalavanna Sutta

“To control the mind, to place it just where we want it requires special training.”
— Swami Vivekananda

 

 

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