"It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing."
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"Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers."
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"Little things please little minds."
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"I've never been one to check for what the next person is doing. My circumstances and my mind have set me apart and I will never blend in."
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"You always have to write script with a budget in mind. Although it's always good to write the big story, you really have to think about how things are going to work as far as cast, effects and settings. It's a process. You have to always think budget and then execute and make it happen."
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"The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened."
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"This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging."
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"The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions"
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"A disciplined mind brings happiness."
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"Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this."
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"These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it."
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"The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas."
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"Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless."
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"The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind."
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"It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked."
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"Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue."
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"Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is."
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"Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you."
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"As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity."
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"Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body."
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