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"As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you."
"To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from."
"The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life."
"Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something is unplugged, but you are still fully here. Senses are functioning normally. This was never the trouble. The mind rises up as resistances and doubts but they are mere thoughts. Mind in its psychological aspect can come full power, but you are not to be a traffic policeman inside your own head."
"The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment."
"Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage."
"Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted"
"Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind."
"It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth."
"There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence."
"Whatever your mind feeds upon your mind attracts to you."
"It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind."
"Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind."
"The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly."
"Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle."
"That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit."
"My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss."
"If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment."
"The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by."
"I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal."
