"Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad."
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"The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation."
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"Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace."
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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
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"We're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend," and we see ourselves as some sort of god. That we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved. But the fact is we're just a bunch of primates out of control."
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"Lust weakens both body and mind."
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"Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine."
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"Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind."
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"The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds"
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"I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it. The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind. The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind."
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"Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind."
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"But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness."
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"Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind."
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"The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company"
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"Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
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"Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors)."
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"Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds."
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"The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things."
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"My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep."
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"If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can’t get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible."
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