"How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind."
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"The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise."
"To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness."
"Welcome to the degeneration of my mind."
"Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds."
"The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind."
"The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations."
"If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it."
"A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious."
"Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage."
"The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."
"The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind."
"Arousal leaves us mind-blind."
"If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me."
"In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic."
"As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind."
"Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall."
"Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason," that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about."
"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."
"I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."