1 — “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
2 — “All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.”
3 — “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
4 — “What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.”
5 — “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
6 — “He is able who thinks he is able.”
7 — “What you think you create, what you feel you attract, what you imagine you become.”
8 — “Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.”
9 — “There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
10 — “It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
11 — “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”
12 — “What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”
13 — “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
14 — “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
15 — “Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.”
16 — “Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!”
17 — “You are a seeker. Delight in the mastery of your hands and your feet, of your words and your thoughts.”
18 — “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”
19 — “The external world is only a manifestation of the activities of the mind itself, and the mind grasps it as an external world simply because of its habit of discrimination and false-reasoning. The disciple must get into the habit of looking at things truthfully.”
20 — “Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”
21 — “Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
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With Ken Thompson 