"It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon."
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"Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil."
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"Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind."
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"What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience."
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"What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds."
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"Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates."
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"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world."
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"A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal."
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"When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood."
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"Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future."
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"No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
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"There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?"
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"Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind."
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"I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments."
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"I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?"
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"I do not know what to do, my mind's in two."
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"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."
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"My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French."
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"Each season has its own beauty. To practice meditation is to open the mind so that all of them may be enjoyed. When each season comes we should enjoy it; & when it goes, we should let it go and open our mind to the next season."
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"Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise."
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