"What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds."
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"Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out."
"I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, My god, hes going to know all the things I dont want people to know. I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love."
"Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way."
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"We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy."
"Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind."
"In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it."
"I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does."
"It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind."
"When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side."
"The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together."
"The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time."
"The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined."
"There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology."
"If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards."
"Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations."
"There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful."
"Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds."
"Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another."