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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease"

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out."

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A.L. Kennedy Author
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"A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?"

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster."

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