"From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!"
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"When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people`s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you`re doing the work of our adversaries for them."
"Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much."
"Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment."
"Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it."
"You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware."
"As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within."
"Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship."
"The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard."
"You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?""
"We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now."
"O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?"
"Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind."
"As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them."
"We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body."
"And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?"
"The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion."
"You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality."
"As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness."
"I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal."