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"Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given."
"What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified."
"Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets."
"The mind of guilt is full of scorpions."
"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain"
"Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross."
"Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?"
"Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!"
"I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind."
"The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage."
"The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless."
"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive."
"Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun."
"There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind."
"The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose."
"To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist."
"All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only."
"In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit."
"Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind."
"Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace."
