"Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind."
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"All problems are illusions of the mind."
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"To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation."
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"If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down."
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"Envy, the attendant of the empty mind."
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"For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting."
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"Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss."
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"...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind."
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"I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things."
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"The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties."
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"If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?"
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"..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
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"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them."
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"The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."
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"The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind."
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"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."
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"Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it."
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"Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often."
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"Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears."
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"The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself."
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