"When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning."
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"Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity."
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"In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga."
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"While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities."
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"The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds."
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"I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind."
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"Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark."
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"There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature."
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"I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions..."
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"My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind."
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"Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality."
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"Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary."
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"[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?"
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"For me, whenever I'm physical it spins my mind and whenever there's a lot going on I put my gloves on or I wrestle somebody and I feel zen."
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"Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed."
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"My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small."
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"Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds."
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"There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened."
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"There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death"
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"Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those who, neglecting the visible Brahman, set their minds on other things! Here is the visible Brahman before you as tangible as a fruit in one's hand! Can't you see? Here - here - is Brahman!"
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