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"We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making."
"The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy."
"I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind."
"The world is in great need of more music education. When students play music, it allows a part of their artistic mind to express itself, which is very important in helping to balance a child intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally."
"The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always."
"What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it."
"The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind."
"With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us."
"The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life."
"Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state."
"In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak."
"Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound."
"Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be."
"The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought."
"Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand."
"May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps."
"It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done."
"We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry"
"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."
"The mind must be trained, rather than the memory."
