You are now

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"How dare you think you are just a thought?" With this question, Ma Jaya shows how us to develop awareness of our passing thoughts, how to stop them for a moment, and how to feel who we truly are. (6 minutes)

Thought and Karma

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In an informal session with her students, Ma Jaya reads and responds to a question on the relationship between thoughts and karma. (6 minutes)

A moment of freedom

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A moment of freedom is a moment without thought or ego. Ma points out the many ways our thoughts can bind us, and invites us to taste freedom in meditation. (9 minutes)

One positive seed-thought
Has saved me,
My entire life:
My Lord Supreme
Will always love me
No matter what I do
Or what I say
Or even what I become.

Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 9 by Sri Chinmoy

God Is...: Selected Writings of Sri Chinmoy

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling, like dew, upon a thought produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

— Lord Byron

So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants: it is the same in mind.

- Dr. Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind

Keep your heart clear and transparent,
and you will never be bound.
A single disturbed thought,
though, creates ten thousand distractions.
Let myriad things captivate you
and you'll go further and further astray.
How painful to see people all wrapped up in themselves...

~ Ryokan

Thought has got tremendous power. Thought can heal diseases. Thoughts can transform the mentality of persons. Thought can do anything. It can work wonders. The velocity of thought is unimaginable.

Thought is a dynamic force. It is caused by the vibrations of psychic Prana or Sukshma Prana on the mental substance. It is a force like gravitation, cohesion or repulsion. Thought travels or moves.

- Holy Master Swami Sivananda
(From "Thought Power")