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Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.67)
As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can carry away the discrimination.
Dhammapada
Chapter III: Thought (34)
As a fish taken from his watery home and thrown on dry ground, our thought trembles all over in order to escape the dominion of Mâra (the tempter).
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (339)
He whose thirst running towards pleasure is exceeding strong in the thirty-six channels, the waves will carry away that misguided man, viz. his...
The Masnavi
The Old Man who made no Lamentation at the Death of his Sons (21-30)
When they are swept aside, the water is seen; But when God unlooses not the hands of reason, The weeds on our water grow thick through carnal lust;...
The Masnavi
The Elephant in a Dark Room (1-11)
Comparison of the sensual eye to the The eye of outward sense is as the palm of a hand, The sea itself is one thing, the foam another; Neglect the...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Characteristics of Existence in the Intermediate State (24.3)
O nobly-born, when thou art driven [hither and thither] by the ever-moving wind of karma, thine intellect, having no object upon which to rest, will...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Characteristics of Existence in the Intermediate State (24.5)
O nobly-born, at about that time, the fierce wind of karma, terrific and hard to endure, will drive thee [onwards], from behind, in dreadful gusts....
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (145)
For when the flash riseth up in the centre, one seeth through and through, but cannot well apprehend or lay hold on it; for it happeneth to such a one...
Dhammapada
Chapter I: The Twin-Verses (7)
He who lives looking for pleasures only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his food, idle, and weak, Mâra (the tempter) will certainly overthrow...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (2)
'As a bird when tied by a string flies first in every direction, and finding no rest anywhere, settles down at last on the very place where it is...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (17)
The sound and the object and the thought called up by a word are confounded because they are all blurred together in the mind. By perfectly...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (26)
A discerning which is carried on without wavering is the means of liberation.
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (1)
WHEN thus vigour has been nurtured, it is well to fix the thought in concentred effort; the man of wandering mind lies between the fangs of the...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto IV (1)
Whenever by delight or else by pain, That seizes any faculty of ours, Wholly to that the soul collects itself, It seemeth that no other power it...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 2 (3.2.7)
The mind, verily, is an apprehender. It is seized by desire as an over-apprehender, for by the mind one desires desires.
Katha Upanishad
Fourth Vallī (14)
'As rain-water that has fallen on a mountain-ridge runs down the rocks on all sides, thus does he, who sees a difference between qualities, run after...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (4.4.1)
When this self comes to weakness and to confusedness of mind, as it were, then the breaths gather around him. He takes to himself those particles of...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book IV (15)
The paths of material things and of states of consciousness are distinct, as is manifest from the fact that the same object may produce different...
The Masnavi
The Thirsty Man who threw Bricks into the Water (10-18)
Since the senses' light is gross and dense, When you cannot see the senses' light with the eye, How can you see with the eye the Light of the mind?...
Dhammapada
Chapter I: The Twin-Verses (8)
He who lives without looking for pleasures, his senses well controlled, moderate in his food, faithful and strong, him Mâra will certainly not...
The Path of Light
Chapter 5: Watchfulness (3)
The thought thus must be kept ever under watch; I must always be as if without carnal sense, like a thing of wood. The eyes must never glance around...
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