"The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity."
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"Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence."
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"The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering."
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"You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done."
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"What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?"
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"I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important."
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"poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us."
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"If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better."
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"In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes."
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"And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals."
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"The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful."
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"I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time"
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"I'm taking pictures in my mind so i can save them for a rainy day."
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"Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind."
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"The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim."
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"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
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"That penny farthing hell you call your mind"
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"The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done."
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"But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?"
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"The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated."
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