Quotes About Control

la mente es un instrumento magnífico si se usa correctamente. Utilizada en forma inadecuada, sin embargo, se vuelve muy destructiva. Para decirlo en forma más exacta, no es tanto que usted la utilice inadecuadamente, generalmente usted no la utiliza en absoluto. Ella lo utiliza a usted. Esa es la enfermedad. Usted cree que usted es su mente. Ese es el engaño. El instrumento se ha apoderado de usted.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

What characterizes an addiction? Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the choice to stop. It

can you be free of your mind whenever you want to? Have you found the "off" button?

Then the mind is using you. You are unconsciously identified with it, so you don't even know that you are its slave. It's almost as if you were possessed without knowing it, and so you take the possessing entity to be yourself. The beginning

It is true that only an unconscious person will try to use or manipulate others, but it is equally true that only an unconscious person can be used and manipulated.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available

Whatever behavior the ego manifests, the hidden motivating force is always the same: the need to stand out, be special, be in control; the need for power, for attention, for more.

Who we love above all else is who we worship, and who we worship controls us.

Sin is guerrilla warfare that is deadly. Just when you think you are in control, it seeks to devour you.

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched to the thoat's broad back.

We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness.

We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.

Seek to persuade the sea wave not to break. You will persuade me no more easily.

Intellect is the light which illuminates its path, and without this light, emotion changes back and forth. In fact, if emotions prevail over the intellect, it is able to obscure the light and distort the picture of the entire world…. Emotional stirrings need the control of reason and the direction of the will.

Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

She was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.

Archer reddened to the temples, but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock about it if it were left undisturbed

At a stroke she had pricked the van der Luydens and they collapsed. He laughed, and sacrificed them.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.