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Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.67)
For, the mind which yields to the roving senses carries away his knowledge, as the wind (carries away) a ship on water.
Katha Upanishad
Third Vallī (5)
'He who has no understanding and whose mind [paragraph continues] (the reins) is never firmly held, his senses (horses) are unmanageable, like...
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...
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...
Katha Upanishad
Third Vallī (6)
'But he who has understanding and whose mind is always firmly held, his senses are under control, like good horses of a charioteer.'
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...
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.
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;...
Dhammapada
Chapter III: Thought (37)
Those who bridle their mind which travels far, moves about alone, is without a body, and hides in the chamber (of the heart), will be free from the...
Corpus Hermeticum
12. About The Common Mind (4)
For [Mind] becomes co-worker with them, giving full play to the desires toward which [such souls] are borne - [desires] that from the rush of lust str...
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XX: The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self - Restraint. (12)
The powers, then, of which we have spoken hold out beautiful sights, and honours, and adulteries, and pleasures, and such like alluring phantasies bef...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (24)
'But he who has not first turned away from his wickedness, who is not tranquil, and subdued, or whose mind is not at rest, he can never obtain the...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (347)
Those who are slaves to passions, run down with the stream (of desires), as a spider runs down the web which he has made himself; when they have cut...
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...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (355)
Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other shore; the foolish by his thirst for pleasures destroys himself, as if he were his own...
The Masnavi
The Lion and the Beasts (101-110)
The ocean of Reason is not seen ; reasoning men are seen; Whatever form that ocean uses as its instrument, Till the heart sees the Giver of the...
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (28-35)
Hence, through ignorance, sloth, and folly, Though he stands hard by us, we are shut off from him. The noise of thunder makes the head of the thirsty...
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).
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...
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching (12)
Colour's five hues from th' eyes their sight will take; Music's five notes the ears as deaf can make; The flavours five deprive the mouth of taste;...
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