"As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison."
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"It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy."
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"To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear."
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"The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness."
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"Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance."
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"To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor."
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"But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable."
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"As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously."
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"Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear."
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"Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind."
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"There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware."
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"That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation."
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"You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind."
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"Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution - except one. We should not - we must not - and I will not - raise taxes."
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"When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought"
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"While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend."
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"I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind."
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"I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about."
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"I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage."
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"A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up."
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