"By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold."
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"There is one mind common to all individual men"
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"The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not."
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"If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing."
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"I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me."
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"The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart."
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"Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand."
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"Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind."
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"What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?"
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"How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind."
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"Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed as "When can the President kill an American citizen?" Now in my mind, killing a non-American citizen without due process is just as criminal as killing an American citizen without due process - but whatever gets us to the table to discuss this thing, we're going to take it."
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"No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind."
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"In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure."
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"That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind."
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"The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting."
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"To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back."
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"The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics."
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"The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind."
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"Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with."
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