Concentration Quotes

“O homem deseja muitas coisas e luta por adquiri-las, crendo que sua posse lhe trará felicidade. Isso o conduz, inevitavelmente, a decepções e sofrimentos. A pessoa prudente, que sabe o que é e aquilo de que realmente necessita, evita todas as perturbações, pois está buscando o real e não coisas efêmeras.”
― Mouni Sadhu, Concentration: A Guide to Mental Mastery

“The old Roman sentence is always valid: “Mundus vult decipi.” (“The world wants to be
deceived”).”
― Mouni Sadhu, Concentration: A Guide to Mental Mastery

“Still another barrier for many people which closes the door to success is the mania or passion for reading too many books, because of their inability to make a definite choice. Getting one on a theme which interests them, they invariably soon seek something “new,” and as soon as that has been read, they again start their interminable searching. Their lives pass without being properly and reasonably used.
Such men forget that books are much more numerous than the weeks and months they have yet to live through. So what is the good of having read even half of them and dying before making any use of the things which men know only mentally?
After all, books are usually for us only crystallized stores of borrowed thoughts created by other men, and not always of use to us, since in all fields of literature they so frequently offer only fiction or near-fiction, which can hardly help an earnest seeker. Although the mind is only a secondary power in man, compared with the higher wisdom consciousness known in Samadhi, which is devoid of thoughts, faults in the structure of that mind are almost an absolute barrier impossible to over come in any study, and especially in the present one. Inadequate comprehension is the same as insufficient knowledge of a foreign alphabet for someone who wants to read in that particular language.
It may happen that it is not merely an unquenchable thirst for reading which drives a man from one author to another, but the fact that he is not satisfied with any so far encountered. In such a case there is nothing more to say then: “Seek and ye shall find.”
― Mouni Sadhu, Concentration: A Guide to Mental Mastery

“Only the perfect man can teach in silence, because he has reached it, and therefore he alone can stimulate it in others. He speaks through the silence infinitely more potently than through any human language. But those who are not yet Jivanmuktas naturally prefer to use speech and pen.”
― Mouni Sadhu, Concentration: A Guide to Mental Mastery

“At this point I would like to quote from the sayings of the most recent of the great Indian
rishis (or sages)—Sri Ramana Maharshi, who was an authority on occult psychology and
all questions pertaining to the human mind:
“An average man’s mind is filled with countless thoughts, and therefore each individual one is extremely weak. When, in place of these many useless thoughts, there appears only one, it is a power in itself and has a wide influence.”
― Mouni Sadhu, Concentration: A Guide to Mental Mastery