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"Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive."
"Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno."
"The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path."
"There is a spiritual godliness that drifts naturally through the affairs of man, but it is visible only if actions are undertaken and performed with that godliness in mind."
"A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind."
"You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is."
"I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds."
"Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov."
"Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives."
"Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind."
"The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened."
"If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong."
"Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces."
"Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside."
"A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought, to mind; certain order singly, to causation - and joined to time, to law."
"Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind."
"The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles."
"The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control."
"If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame."
"Man is not mind, he is soul."
