"We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable."
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"There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a lame, hapless attempt at hurting herself. There hadn't even been that much blood and nobody at the hospital had been at all surprised. These scars, for some reason, he didn't mind. Maybe they even appealed to him. They showed that she was weak and in need of him."
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"The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open."
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"As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life."
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"All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling."
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"Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons."
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"I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind."
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"We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong."
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"I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview."
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"But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution."
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"You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying."
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"An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence"
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"Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is"
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""I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.""
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"He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb."
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"Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods."
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"I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive."
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"Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts."
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"Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor"
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"We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back."
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