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"The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind."
"The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind."
"Society is our extended mind and body."
"What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition."
"God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind."
"The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things."
"No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired]."
"The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation."
"No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect."
"Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well."
"Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind"
"If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it."
"Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound."
"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches."
"It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth."
"There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes."
"Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms."
"The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens."
"There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit."
"No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so."
