Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.
Zen saying

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Shakespeare

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
G.K. Chesterton

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein

Know thyself?
If I knew myself, I'd run away.
Goethe

The more we understand individual things,
the more we understand God.
Spinoza

To set up what you like against what you dislike - this is the disease of the mind.
Seng-t'san

Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
T.S. Eliot

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be enlightened by all things is to drop off our own body and mind, and to drop off the bodies and minds of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.
Dogen

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H.L. Mencken

He who knows others is wise.
He who know himself is enlightened.
Tao te Ching

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