"If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave."
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"Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices."
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"To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts."
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"The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime."
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"You either control your mind or it controls you."
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"Great minds think for themselves."
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"Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind."
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"Lord, forgive the times I tried to read your mind."
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"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."
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"The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts."
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"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."
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"On gay adoption I have changed my mind."
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"O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire."
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"Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering."
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"Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord."
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"When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself."
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"In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work."
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"Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages."
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"When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work."
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"I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth."
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