Monk Mindset Quotes

The goal of monk thinking is a life free of ego, envy, lust, anxiety, anger, bitterness, baggage. To my mind, adopting the monk mindset isn’t just possible—it’s necessary. We have no other choice. We need to find calm, stillness, and peace.

Becoming a monk is a mindset that anyone can adopt.

With your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs under control, you can have as much as the richest man and be as peaceful as a Buddhist monk . You can experience inner-happiness and euphoric love.

As the Las Vegas strip came into sight through my car's windshield, I remembered the words that unnamed monk wrote in the 19th century. You risk so much by hesitating to fling yourself into the abyss.

Out in the modern world, no matter how much we want to help others, we are distracted from the service mindset by the desire to be financially and emotionally stable and secure. If you’re lost and disconnected, your service will be cumbersome and less fulfilling. But when is the time right? Will it ever be right? Internal exploration has no endpoint. It’s an ongoing practice. Your problems will never be completely solved.

INVEST IN THE CONSCIOUS MIND Just as you are not your mind, you are not your thoughts. Saying to yourself “I don’t deserve love” or “My life sucks” doesn’t make it a fact, but these self-defeating thoughts are hard to rewire. All of us have a history of pain, heartbreak, and challenges, whatever they may be. Just because we’ve been through something and it’s safely in the past doesn’t mean it’s over. On the contrary, it will persist in some form—often in self-defeating thoughts—until it teaches us what we need to change. If you haven’t healed your relationship with your parents, you’ll keep picking partners who mirror the unresolved issues. If you don’t deliberately rewire your mindset, you are destined to repeat and re-create the pain you’ve already endured. It may sound silly, but the best way to overwrite the voices in your head is to start talking to them. Literally. Start talking to yourself every day. Feel free to address yourself with your name and to do it out loud wherever you’re comfortable doing so (so maybe not on a first date or a job interview). Sound is powerful, and hearing your own name grabs your attention.

You must have the mindset of a monk and a detective when handling candles.

The monk mindset lifts us out of confusion and distraction and helps us find clarity,

Using this little-known information, anyone can easily create a positive, creative mindset within a short period. The process is straightforward: when an undesirable thought occupies the focal point of your mind, immediately replace it with an uplifting one. It’s as if your mind is a giant slide projector, with every thought in your mind being a slide. Whenever a negative slide comes up on the screen, take swift action to replace it with a positive one.

The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. If you have become a negative thinker, this is because you have not cared for your mind and taken the time to train it to focus on the good. Winston Churchill said that ‘the price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts.’ Then you will install the vibrant mindset you are looking for. Remember, the mind truly is like any other muscle in your body. Use it or lose it.

Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger, compiled by Peter D Kaufman3 The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma4 Letters from a Stoic by Seneca5 Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman6 Mastery by Robert Greene7 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius8 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson9 The Obstacle Is the Way

Before you lay your head on your pillow and go to sleep, recall just three things you were thankful for today. If you continue to do this for two months, you will see an increase in your level of happiness, because instead of focusing on what is wrong with your life, you will develop a habit of looking for what is good. A happy mind-set needs practice.