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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
Mind

"Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told."

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Maya Tiwari Author, Spiritual Teacher
Mind

"Women and men are constructed differently, cosmically differently, never mind the physiognomy, but the cosmic memory we carry within us. The purposes we serve, the things that drive us, the things that are important to us are basically different."

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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
Mind

"A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
Mind

"What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life."

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Ming-Dao Deng Author
Mind

"Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Mind

"To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our children today. Tomorrow's world may be influenced by science and technology, but more than anything, it is already taking shape in the bodies and minds of our children."

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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"What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!"

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
Mind

"The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Mind

"Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Mind

"Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world."

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