” In the ordinary man, when a thought occurs, the ego takes delivery of it as ‘my thought’ and gets involved. In the Enlightened sage, when a thought arises, witnessing happens, and involvement with the thought does not take place.”
Ramana Maharshi
Tag: Thought
No thought has any power You have power…
No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.
-Mooji
When the thought has no customers the thought…
When the thought has no customers, the thought vanishes.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj,
Desire is merely the fixation of the mind…
Desire is merely the fixation of the mind on an idea. Get it out of its groove by denying it attention.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
Whatever decision we think we are making is…
Whatever decision we think we are making is actually being made for us, because the decision is the end result of a thought and we have no control over the arising of the thought.
Ramesh Balsekar