"We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds."
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"Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health."
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"The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions."
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"A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm."
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"The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize."
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"You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended a little beyond reason. The moment you go beyond , you move in the soul. Releasing the bondage of your mind to extend further, reach the unknown a little more. The further you go, you realize that the known is limited and the unknown is vast."
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"Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind."
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"The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it."
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"By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be."
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"Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?"
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"As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met."
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"To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey."
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"When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist."
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"The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind."
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"Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust."
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"Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies."
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"As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief."
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"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
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"Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune."
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"For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him."
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