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Barack Obama Politician
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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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Mind

"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Mind

"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Mind

"As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Mind

"Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"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?""

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
Mind

"We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"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."

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Plato Philosopher
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"We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body."

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Plato Philosopher
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"And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?"

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Plato Philosopher
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"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."

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Pliny the Elder Naturalist, Author
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"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."

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