"You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future."
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"You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present."
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"Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react."
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"Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other."
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"When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it."
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"Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence."
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"Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet"
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"We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts."
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"If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. We can look at the world with fresh eyes and hear things with fresh ears."
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"If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind."
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"What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel."
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"The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind."
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"For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles."
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"Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds."
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"It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing."
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"That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol."
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"Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts."
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"Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind."
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"A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For the purposes of occult dominion, minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control may be achieved. Minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. The scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged."
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"It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion."
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