"When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods."
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"If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world."
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"The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice."
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"Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment."
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"Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind"
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"Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether."
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"Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen."
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"Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone."
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"As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood."
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"When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind."
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"Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values."
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"Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings."
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"Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God."
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"Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor."
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"Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing."
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"My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made."
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"To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life."
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"Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit."
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"Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate."
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"Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the other’s going, ‘I don’t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things."
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