"I don't have a very logical and orderly mind."
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"We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there."
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"It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias."
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"Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind."
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"Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I ."
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"So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid."
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"We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions."
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"How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you."
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"Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind."
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"After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above."
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"The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness - it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti."
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"It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff."
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"Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost."
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"The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent."
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"The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work."
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"...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds."
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"Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination."
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"Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless."
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"No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the structure of reality emerges most readily when a free, undisciplined, and uncluttered (read, rather, ignorant and uneducated) mind soars above mere earthly knowledge and concern."
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"What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not."
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