Best Quotes from Energize Your Mind

Here’s another best-quote blog. Today I will be sharing the best quotes from my recent read: Energize Your Mind by a monk who is just not a personal coach but also a lifestyle and motivational strategist-Gaur Gopal Das.

The book was a feast of knowledge, one should read who wants to win over oneself. Now, let’s read the quotes from the book.

1. The choices we make in life define our journey. Most things are out of control, but how we react is always in our control.
2. The mark of intelligence is the ability to explain complex subjects simply.
3. In all spheres of life, we have to understand how to control our emotions. If we can learn to master our emotions, not repressing or succumbing to them, we can achieve things we can only dream of individually and as a society.
4. People with high levels of emotional agility are able to not only decipher how they are feeling, but also understand how others are feeling too.
5. We must first correctly identify the cause of our problems and secondly, come up with a solution. Identifying our emotions is the first step; dealing with them appropriately is the second step.
6. Understanding how to accept and deal with your emotions is important. If under the sway of those emotions, we hurt other people with our words or actions, it becomes very difficult to mend that situation.
7. Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.
8. Happiness is not just about having more, but also about focusing more on what we do have. This mindset is the key to crafting joy; the opposite of that is comparison, which is the thief of joy.
9. We are in a world of governed by duality- good and bad, right and wrong, rich and poor. Yet, we can start making small shifts in our mindsets to focus more on our own lives than those of others.
10. Time is scarce, it is important to learn its value and realize that it’s fact of life: we cannot have it all.
11. If we can learn to enjoy being in the present, the fear of missing out will not be able to hurt us.
12. Rather than looking at what we can’t do or what we don’t have, it is important to be grateful what we do not have, it is important to be grateful for what we can do and what we do have.
13. If you want to get an honest opinion on how you look, ask a child. They have no filter between their thoughts and their words.
14. The inability to control the mind and bind it to stay in one place causes a lack of focus.
15. Remember, the mind wants to be the hero and get involved with everything. It wants to analyze, judge, and assign meaning to everything that is going on as it loves the chatter.
16. Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
17. We must not bury our heads in the sand; we must not ignore the signs that indicate we are struggling with our mental health by covering them up with our spiritual practices.
18. Just as a blade of grass gets stepped on and bounces back, we should be humble enough to bow down so that we can gain wisdom.
19. If our problem is a huge box that we are carrying, opening up to someone we trust would represent them helping us carry the other side of the box.
20. The depressed person is just depressed; they can’t pinpoint what is causing their hopelessness.
21. Someone with depression would rather mask their true emotions than deal with them.
22. When the magnitude of our problem is less than our ability to deal with it ourselves, self-help works. When the magnitude of our problem is overwhelmingly greater than our ability to deal with it ourselves, we need to seek help either through medication, therapy or both together.
23. Words are energy and cast spells; that’s why it’s called spelling. Change the way you speak to yourself, and you can change your life.
24. You are what you eat, physically and mentally. Therefore, it is important to eat fresh food.
25. We have to make sure that we are giving our best to those who seek our help.
26. We need to reflect and then act. The quicker the better.
27. Self-forgiveness is foundational in moving on and rising above those negative feelings. We cannot forgive ourselves if we are wallowing in guilt.
28. Changing our narrative with the right type of self-talk is important, though they are not quite positive affirmations. It’s a state of mind to deal with ourselves with kindness.
29. Isn’t it ironic that when we are born, people love us and when we die, people love us, but in between we have to manage somehow?
30. Our emotions move up and down like the waves in the sea. It should be normalized that no one is perfect, and we all struggle in some areas of our lives.
31. Just as the fielders must protect the boundary from the ball that the batsmen hit, similarly we must protect our boundaries with other people. This is the only way to win the game of mental well-being.
32. For hundreds of years now, the world has been transitioning from ‘survive to thrive’, which means that for self-actualization and spiritual growth, we need to learn how to refuse.
33. As we go through life, if we get distracted and don’t respect our time by saying no, we can never achieve what we want. If we want to avoid getting distracted, we have to start playing the role of the driver.
34. For those that are intentionally toxic, we must walk away and let them be. We can’t change such people and should not waste time trying to change them as they will drag us down with them. If we do not know how to swim, let us not be a lifeguard.
35. ‘Do not allow anyone to remote-control your emotions’. We use remote controls to control our T.V, A.C, and lights, but often we don’t realize how other people hold the remote control for our lives, even if their actions that are affecting us are from the past.
36. Emotional independence is a great strength that allows us to find our own happy space and help others find theirs.
37. The past is a good place to visit but not a good place to stay.
38. If we spend our time on the negative memories of the past, there is no space for the fresh positivity that we can create.
39. What we tell ourselves is more important than what others tell us.
40. Listening to everyone really means we are listening to no one.
41. At the end of the day, our peace is more important than being right.
42. Accept both compliments and criticism with grace. It takes sunlight and rain to help a flower grow.
43. Unless what is within you comes out, you can’t make an impact.
44. Unless you go through the pain of being sharpened, what is within you will not come out.
45. People can definitely change and grow, but at that moment, we have to accept who they are, what they do and what they say.
46. Patience is a virtue, and the golden word is ‘wait’.
47. The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because that is a portion of your life that you will never get back.
48. We can have a positive outlook within, but it should never be forgotten that there are forces from other living beings that will always be there to hurt us.
49. Our eyes can fail us. What we see on the outside doesn’t always match what people are feeling on the inside.
50. Understanding is deeper than knowledge.
51. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
52. If we want to change the world, we have to change ourselves by communicating with ourselves positively.
53. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
54. When we rise above in our lives, we may be able to see the drama, but we are immune to it as we focus on higher principles.
55. We are a tiny part of the large universe, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do our tiny bit to add value to the world we live in.
56. Confident people have the intention to serve others. Arrogant people may serve others, but the intention of their service is to benefit themselves through the fruits of such service.
57. Being humble means we do not think less of ourselves but think of ourselves less.
58. Everybody has so much to offer; arrogance stops us from learning from them.
59. Traits that stop us from moving beyond ourselves in selfishness. A self-absorbed person is only interested in their own life, but a selfish person deeply cares only about their own personal profit and pleasure.
60. Rivers do not drink their own water and trees do not eat their own fruits. Likewise, rain-bearing clouds do not eat the grains they help grow. Surely, the aim of great noble and righteous persons in their lifetime is to do selfless service to humanity.
61. The way to accept self-care without being selfish is through self-awareness.
62. The mind is such a powerful voice within us that it is natural to feel that we are the mind.
63. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
64. If we can spend 5 minutes in the morning focusing on our blessings instead of our problems, we can start to train our minds to stay in a state of gratitude.
65. If you can’t do the the little things right, you will never be able to do the big things right.