A Quote by George MacDonald

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

George MacDonald

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All Things Common Developed Far Genuine Mind More Others Pure Refinement Sees Than Things Vulgarity

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George MacDonald
Scottish - Writer
December 10, 1824 - September 18, 1905

We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.

Eknath Easwaran

When thoughts are reduced, power of the mind and its subtlety increases, tunes with the Universe. Then you can see the realms beyond the common understanding. When the mind is pure and quiet it becomes one with the universal mind. That mind is like a mirror. The secrets of the Universe will be revealed there.

Mata Amritanandamayi

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.

Sarada Devi

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Augustus Hare

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Gautama Buddha

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

Gautama Buddha

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

Bodhidharma

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its radiance.

Alberto Villoldo

For those pure in mind, everything is pure.

Georg Feuerstein

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

Ramana Maharshi

An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.

Ramana Maharshi

Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta, buddha-consciousness: a mind which functions as a no-mind, a mind which dreams no more, thinks no more, a mind which is just awareness, pure awareness.