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"As you meditate, over time your consciousness becomes awake within itself. The silent witness within saturates and illuminates the mind so that it does not look to the past or the future for fulfillment. It experiences peace and freedom within itself in every moment."
"What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?"
"For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself."
"I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the words are important. But they're only words. You leave them on the paper and you take the thoughts and put them into your mind and then you as an actor recreate them, as if the thoughts had suddenly occurred to you."
"History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another."
"In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ... I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind."
"The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear."
"Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul."
"Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?"
"There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom."
"Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one day they stopped, and stared at a box. They grew fat and awkward in public, stopped expressing emotions and couldn't figure out how to reverse it: they reinvented themselves from Emperors back into prawns, because someone turned the TV on."
"The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways."
"To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had."
"Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d rather than problem- focused."
"We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him."
"O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i beseech thee to grant me the grace to continue in thy presence; and to this end do thou prosper me with thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections." (Bro. Lawrence implored His grace and offered to Him all his actions)."
"I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true."
"The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it."
"I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me."
"The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it."
