"In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims."
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"Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new."
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"Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing."
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"Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh."
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"A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even."
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"Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them."
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"It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog."
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"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"
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"She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance."
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"It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great."
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"The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt."
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"The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written."
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"Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day."
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"Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it."
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"Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal."
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"What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable."
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"I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back."
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"Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind."
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"Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed."
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"The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning."
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